Espoo Museum of Modern Art
26.02.2020 - 02.08.2020
Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean (b. 1965) is one of the most highly acclaimed artists of our time. She is well known for her 16mm and 35mm films, as well as championing the preservation and continued use of photochemical film and analogue mediums generally. She also makes spatially engaging chalkboard drawings, drawings on slate, photographs, prints and works using found materials. This exhibition consists of new and recent key works in which Dean explores ideas around portraiture, painting and the transience of events in nature.
The exhibition includes seven films, the latest of which, A Cloud makes itself, receives its premiere. The works featured in the exhibition include Dean’s ambitious chalkboard drawing Chalk Fall (2018), her recent series of 80 monoprints on found postcards, Pantone Pairs (2019), displayed for the first time at EMMA and two works from the Saastamoinen Foundation´s art collection, Quatemary and A Book End of Time.
Event for a Stage is a 50 minute film, which will be screened daily at the times below. We strongly advise our visitors to watch the film from start to finish.
Tuesdays: 12:00, 16:00
Wednesdays–Fridays: 12:00, 15:00, 17:30
Saturdays–Sundays: 12:00, 14:00, 16:00
Artist interview
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Tacita Dean: Buon Fresco, 2014 (Location photograph). 16mm colour film, silent, continuous loop; 33 minutes. -
Tacita Dean: Ear on a Worm, 2017 (Film still). 16mm colour film with optical sound, continuous loop; 3 minutes 33 seconds -
Tacita Dean: Event for a Stage, 2015 (Location photograph). 16mm colour film, optical sound; 50 minutes -
Tacita Dean: Manhattan Mouse Museum, 2011 (Film still). 16mm colour film, optical sound, continuous loop; 16 minutes -
Tacita Dean. Portraits, 2016 (Location photograph). 16mm colour film, optical sound, continuous loop; 16 minutes -
Tacita Dean: His Picture in Little, 2017 (Film still). 35mm colour anamorphic film, silent, reduced to spherical 16mm for exhibition as a miniature, continuous loop; 15 minutes 30 seconds.