Rachel Whiteread

The newly founded gallery Haunch of Venison inaugurates its opening with an exhibition by internationally acclaimed sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The exhibition and accompanying publication feature Whiteread's newest work, Untitled (Domestic), a massive sculpture cast from the fire escape staircases of Haunch of Venison's premises--a 3-storey building constructed in the late eighteenth century that was originally the home of Admiral Lord Nelson. Reincarnating the staircase in its negative form, the imposing white sculpture invokes the building's past while reflecting the artist's interest in the formal and purely architectural qualities of sculpture. This inaugural publication features installation views of the exhibition, including additional work dating from 1995 to the present day, as well as two amply illustrated essays and a complete bibliography. The first text considers Whiteread's immense public commissions in relation to their environment; the second outlines the history and techniques involved in creating the cast staircase sculptures.

Arts & Photography

Greeves, Susanna

History & Criticism

Haunch of Venison

Diana Thater: Transcendence is Expansion and Contraction at the Same Time

Thater, Diana

Performing Arts

Here and Now and Then

Thomas Joshua Cooper: Point of No Return

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Photography & Video

Keith Tyson: History Paintings

John Doe

Ian Monroe

Tom Morton

Sandpipers, Lizards and History (Art Catalogue)

Cork, Richard and Anton Henning

An encounter with a Mark Alexander painting is an uncommon experience, not because his body of work is small in number, which it happens to be, but because of what Alexander conveys in each picture. Exhibition catalog, 9.5x11", 50 pp, color illustrations.

Mark Alexander: The Bigger Victory

Bull, Malcolm

Falconer, Morgan

Wagner, Ethan J.

<p>London focuses on the four London projects to date by renowned Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, at Haunch of Venison and the Frieze Art Fair in 2005, Camden Arts Centre in 2004, and Pearl Projects in 2003. Reis is interested in man's relationship to architecture and the fabricated environments in which we live. The exhibition included three sculptures and a group of five large scale monochrome paintings in sombre dark colours presented behind glass, creating perspectival boxes that reflect the room in which they are sited. On close inspection the monochrome fabric makes its material presence felt and the viewer's gaze flits between seeing their own image and the work's materiality. Included is a conversation between the artist and David Batchelor, and a major new essay by art critic Sarah Kent. Pedro Cabrita Reis (b.1956) represented Portugal at the 2003 Venice Biennale.</p>

Pedro Cabrita Reis

Batchelor, David

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition "Al Taylor at Haunch of Venison, London", 11 September - 4 October 2006.

Al Taylor

TUFNELL, Ben

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