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Tate Modern Exhibition

UBS Openings: Tate Modern Collection 2006 Domestic Incidents

10 June – 28 August 2006

Bill Woodrow, Twin-Tub with Guitar 1981. Tate. © Bill Woodrow.

Bill Woodrow
Twin-Tub with Guitar (1981)
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© Bill Woodrow

The domestic interiors we inhabit and objects we depend upon have provided a rich source of material for artists since the seventeenth century and the emergence of still-life painting. This temporary display in the Turbine Hall explores how more recent artists have approached this subject. Bill Woodrow's ingenious sculptures are recycled from consumer durables like washing machines, while Tony Cragg assembles domestic junk into images which suggest the humble origins of their disparate parts. Works by Mona Hatoum and Louise Bourgeois subvert the notion of the home as a protective environment, while Rachel Whiteread's casts of the spaces beneath tables prompt us to consider our physical relationship to the spaces which are such a part of our lives but often go unnoticed.

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10 June – 28 August 2006

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  • Blank Image (for use as default)

    Christmas Tree 1988: Bill Woodrow

    Christmas Tree 1988: Bill Woodrow: past Tate Britain exhibition

  • Blank Image (for use as default)

    Tony Cragg

    Tony Cragg: past Tate Liverpool exhibition

  • Tony Cragg's Stack

    Kishio Suga

    In celebration of the reopening of Tate Britain, Tate Etc. invited a selection of artists from around the world to choose a favoured work from a fellow artist currently on display. Here, Japanese artist Kishio Suga discusses Tony Cragg’s Stack 1975

  • Rachel Whiteread Drawings exhibition banner

    Rachel Whiteread Drawings

    Rachel Whiteread Drawings; past exhibition at Tate Britain

  • Rachel Whiteread installation film of Untitled (Rooms) (2001) and Untitled (Stairs) (2001)

    A time-lapse film to document the installation of Rachael Whiteread’s Untitled (Rooms) 2001 and Untitled (Stairs) 2001

  • Rachel Whiteread installation view Tate Liverpool

    Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life

    Past Tate Liverpool exhibition: Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life

  • Rachel Whiteread EMBANKMENT 2

    The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread: EMBANKMENT

    The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread: Embankment, Tate Modern

  • Exhibition banner Louise Bourgeois Tate Modern

    Louise Bourgeois

    Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Tate Modern 10 October 2007 – 20 January 2008

  • Louise Bourgeois: Unilever series image 08

    The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois: I Do, I Undo, I Redo

    The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois: I Do, I Undo, I Redo; 2002 exhibition at Tate Modern

  • Artist

    Mona Hatoum

    born 1952
  • Artist

    Bill Woodrow

    born 1948
  • Artist

    Louise Bourgeois

    1911–2010
  • Artist

    Tony Cragg

    born 1949
  • Artist

    Rachel Whiteread

    born 1963
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