Turner Prize 2010 nominee!
Turner Prize 2010 nominated artist Dexter Dalwood has been building a strong reputation over the last decade in the UK, Europe and the United States. This book, featuring major works made over the last 12 years, provides a first overview of his work.
Dalwood's works depict imagined and constructed interiors or landscapes, usually devoid of figures, that act as memorials or descriptions of various historic people, places or moments.
They draw on an idea of 'History Painting' as a genre and, like their illustrious antecedents, the quotations, allusions and references can be elusive and highly codified at first.
But, like the grand 18th and 19th century works they allude to, the canvases have an immediacy, and power as paintings first and foremost.
Dalwood weaves together personal, social and political histories with art history, popular culture and biography to produce provocative and complex new constellations of meaning.
His post-modern, post-Pop 'history paintings' display a smart and seductive lightness of touch; an accessibility and wit offered through the shared experience of the collective political and cultural histories they invoke.
Published to accompany the exhibition at Tate St Ives, which is touring to FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims) and CAC Malaga through 2010.
English text.
Not available to UK customers. British (UK and Ireland) edition by Tate Publishing
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