Cathy's Art Diary

Wonderful exhibition at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill of new work by Rachel Whiteread. Whiteread normally makes casts of the insides of objects such as chairs on in one case a whole house but for this show, made during Covid restrictions, she has turned to creating new structures made from found metal and wood. The main pieces were two sheds constructed in this way and painted white to give a cohesion. I loved the way you could walk round the objects looking in and see how she had built in tree branches to look as if nature was taking over these dilapidated buildings. Dilapidated but in fact newly made. Shown with these works around the walls were new works on paper and flat, relief like resin casts including one of a notice board.     Closes 6 June 2021 Reviews Guardian Evening Standard

Lovely exhibition at Tate Britain looking at the career of the sculptor Rachel Whiteread. I find Whiteread’s work very touching often looking at the forgotten empty space around familiar objects. I was entranced from the opening exhibit in the large Duveen Gallery, “Untitled (100 spaces)”, casts of the space under chair cast in coloured resins which looked like huge jelly sweets. The exhibition space had been opened up into one large space so that you could see the larger objects from across the room however it also managed to flow and give a narrative to the work. It was brave to display largely white objects in a white room but it worked well. My favourite piece was the large cast of library shelves which had been made in preparation for her Holocaust memorial in Vienna. It was a touching work where the shelves were the spaces and the shadow of the books were left. I loved a section where the books had had cut out markers on the pages which were reflected in the cas...