Tacita Dean - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)

Tacita Dean Kotzsch Trees, 2008 Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris TACITA DEAN 6 June 2009 - 2 August 2009 A major survey of new and recent works by celebrated British contemporary artist Tacita Dean will feature in this exhibition opening at ACCA on June 6th. Tacita Dean is renowned for her 16mm film installations as well as for other works closely related to the films including photogravures, drawings on alabaster, overpainted photographs, sound recordings on magnetic tape, installation works and objets trouvés. Running through all her work is an obsession with time, with perception, with the nature of seeing: with things that lie outside of time or on the verge of disappearance. Born in 1965 in Canterbury, England, Tacita Dean moved to Berlin in 2000 where she continues to live today. Her film installation Merce Cunningham Performs Stillness… was first presented at Dia:Beacon, New York (2008) and recent solo exhibitions include: Still Life, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2009), In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin (2008), Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2007) and Analogue, Schaulager, Basel (2006). Dean has also had many notable solo exhibitions at De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands (2004), Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Tate Britain, London (2001). Dean won the Hugo Boss award in 2007 and will be awarded the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis, Lower Saxony, Germany at the end of 2009. In this new survey audiences will grasp the extent to which her practice embraces the analogue forms of photography, print, drawing and film to engage with the genres of landscape, portraiture, narrative and abstraction.