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Tacita Dean

The Wet Prayer, 2013

Tacita Dean The Wet Prayer

TACITA DEAN
Canterbury, United Kingdom, 1965
Director of Fundación Botín Art Workshop in 2013

The Wet Prayer, 2013
Chalk on slate panels
Diptych
244 x 244 each
Acquired 2014

Tacita Dean produced blackboard drawings at the very early stages of her career, returning to this form in 2012 after a hiatus of a decade, with a series for documenta 13. As is often the case with these works, she produced the two panels that constitute The Wet Prayer on-site (during the setup of her exhibition). She first erased the two large slates onto which she had first drawn in 1992 to execute this scene of a storm as seen from the deck of ship.

The title refers to a tale by Rudyard Kipling, which tells the story of a shipwreck. The term “west prayer” describes the past plea made before drowning. This blackboard drawing was executed for “De Mar en Mar”, an exhibition of her works dedicated to the sea, presented at Fundación Botín in the fall of 2013. In her work, Dean has regularly depicted the sea, whether in films, photographs or drawings: the relationship of humans to this essential element of nature has always been part of the artist’s source of inspiration.

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Tacita Dean

Inglaterra, 1975

Ha celebrado exposiciones individuales en la Tate Britain de Londres (2001), el Schaulager de Basilea (2006), el Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum de Nueva York (2007), la Nicola Trussardi Foundation de Milán (2009), el MUMOK de Viena (2011), en el New Museum de Nueva York, en Documenta (13) (2012), y en la Arcadia University Art Gallery de Filadelfia con su proyecto audiovisual, JG (2013). Dean fue candidata al premio Turner en 1998, ganó el premio Hugo Boss en 2006 y el Kurt Schwitters en 2009. Sus obras están presentes en las colecciones del Museo de Bellas de Canadá; la Fundación Louis Vuitton, París; el MACBA, Barcelona; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MOMA y Tate Britain entre otras.

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