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British artist Rachel Whiteread's first U.S. commission, Water
Tower, is a translucent resin cast of a wooden water tank,
raised seven stories above the streets of Soho. Recipient of
the Turner Prize in 1993 (the first woman to do so) for her installation
House, a concrete cast of the interior of a soon-to-be-demolished
East London house, Whiteread continues her investigations into
the relationship between art and urban society. Her reversal
of matter and space in House gave the interior space a
physical presence, a tangibility. Water Tower is not a
simple inversion; its untouchable presence on the skyline provoking
thought on it, and art's, place within the city. |
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