Eva Rothschild South London Gallery 13 Sep - 4 Nov 2007 © the artist Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, Zurich, and 303 Gallery, New York.
Sculptor Eva Rothschild has been invited to create a new installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2009, supported by Sotheby’s.
She will be the first artist to design a single work that will stretch the full 70m length of the Duveen Galleries and the piece has been designed to encourage visitors to physically and optically re-engage with a space that may be familiar to them.
“I’m hoping to create something that will agitate the architecture of the Duveens Galleries, tangling with your perception of the space,” said Rothschild.
Previous pieces from the artist have explored the relationships between volume and mass, and surface and structure and previous pieces have lightly yet effectively occupied the space.
Eva Rothschild , 2009 © Gautier Deblonde
The new piece will directly respond to the setting of the Duveen Galleries and, although it will contain some of the essential characteristics of her practice, it will see Rothschild taking her work in an exciting new direction.
Stephen Deuchar, Director of Tate Britain said: “I am delighted that Eva Rothschild has accepted Tate Britain’s invitation to create this years commission. She is one of the most interesting sculptors working today, creating works that beguile their subtlety and illusion. I look forward to seeing the new site-specific sculpture she is creating for the Tate Britain Duveens this summer.”
For more information go to www.tate.org.uk
