Biography

Tacita Dean is a British European artist living and working in Berlin and Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Schwitters Prize in 2009 and the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006. Her most recent solo exhibitions include the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2023). In 2018, a trilogy of solo exhibitions was held simultaneously at the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 2021, she designed the sets and costumes for the ballet The Dante Project, a collaborative production with Wayne McGregor and Thomas Adès, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in London. In 2011, Dean’s work FILM, shown in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, marked the beginning of a campaign to preserve photochemical film.

Project Summary

Tacita Dean plans to search in I Tatti’s library and the museums in Florence and the surrounding region for depictions of broken statues, particularly limbs, for use in her artwork. Her hope is to produce studies of them for a new drawing project. Research begets research so the expectation is that this will be the start of many fruitful discoveries.