Published on the occasion of the 2022-23 exhibition Tacita Dean at Luxembourg's Modern Art Museum, this book operates as both a rich exhibition catalogue and record of The Dante Project, a ballet first staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2021. Acclaimed British artist Tacita Dean was commissioned by the Royal Opera House to collaborate with choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Thomas Adès on a piece inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy (1308–21). The ballet and Dean’s designs formed three distinctive parts mirroring Dante’s journey through the realms of the dead – Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. An excellent essay by art historian Briony Fer places Dean's body of work in the context of Dante's long influence on artists.
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120 pages.
- 127 colour ills.
- 25 x 19cm.
Meet Tacita Dean British artist and Turner Prize finalist Tacita Dean (born 1965) lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, where she was the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2014-2015, as well as receiving numerous other awards over the course of her career. Her work is carried by a sense of history, time, and place, light quality, and the essence of film itself–she has dedicated immense time and resources to saving the medium of film from extinction. The focus of her subtle but ambitious work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium, and the sensibilities of the individual.
