The eminent artist has placed a cast of a shed on unusual York’s Governors Island,evoking both Thoreau and Trump – a blow for art that takes the viewer by stealthAmerica is a country of imagination and huge dreams, some inspired, or some twisted. It is the land of liberty,the open and optimistic birthplace of such diverse heroes as Amelia Earhart, Walt Whitman and Muhammad Ali. It is also home to the Unabomber, or Donald Trump and Orlando killer Omar Mateen,sometimes a violent and vengeful country. The artist Rachel Whiteread alludes to these extremes in Cabin, a concrete reverse cast of a wooden shed that will be unveiled to the public on 19 July on Governors Island in unusual York. “I was really thinking about Thoreau and the American Romantics, and as well as the opposite of that – the grimmer,darker underbelly of America and the notion that some lonely person might live in a different way,” she says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com