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Tacita Dean, Necklace Film Reels, 2012

Name: Tacita Dean, Necklace Film Reels, 2012
Brand: Tacita Dean
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Description

Tacita Dean

Necklace Film Reels, 2012

Mixed media film reels

Unsigned

Edition of 36

16 in diameter

Provenance
Studio Voltaire, London, UK
This collectible necklace was published as a fundraising edition for Studio Voltaire in 2012
Medium: Limited Edition Necklace, consisting actual film reels taken from FILM, the artist's Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern.
Limited Edition of only 36
Accompanied by letter/certificate from the publisher
FILM by Tacita Dean is an 11-minute silent 35 mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Tate Turbine Hall. It was the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue filmmaking as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
Not signed; not numbered