Bidspirit auction | Rachel Whiteread ”Squashed” Mixographia

Rachel Whiteread ”Squashed” Mixographia - Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Numbered in the lower left. Titled in the center.  Limited Edition: 34/42   Image: 27” x 37”  Frame: 30 1/2” x 40 1/2”    Condition: The artwork is in very good condition. Some marks to the frame. See images for details.    Artist Bio: Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) studied sculpture at the Slade and in 1993 became the first woman to win the Turner Prize. Her method is to cast negative space — the void inside, under or around an object — so the residue of use becomes a solid memory-object; the subjects are domestic and overlooked, and the themes are absence, memory and the trace of the body. The defining works are ”Ghost” of 1990, a cast of a Victorian room interior, and ”House” of 1993, the concrete cast of an entire East London terrace house. Mixografia is a Los Angeles workshop where a sculptural maquette is cast in copper and high-moisture handmade paper is pressed into it under great pressure, taking a genuine three-dimensional relief — a process developed with Rufino Tamayo from 1973, and unusually well matched to an artist who works in casts and impressions.