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Description: | Screenprint with acrylic varnish. ‘Water Tower Project’ is a study for a public sculpture commission that Rachel Whiteread undertook in New York in 1998. Supported by The Public Art Fund, ‘Water Tower’ was her first public sculpture in the United States. A translucent resin cast of the interior space of a wooden water tank, it was cast in a colourless polyurethane resin, the translucency and texture of which were affected by changing shifts of daylight. Situated alongside two functioning water tanks, the sculpture was visible from street level at the corner of West Broadway and Grand Street throughout June 1999.
Before this project, Whiteread had completed ‘House’, her famous but controversial sculpture based on a cast of the interior spaces of an abandoned house in London’s East End (destroyed in 1994). Although she was reluctant to become involved in another public project, she was drawn to the iconic status and ubiquity of the New York water towers. Whiteread made her name by creating works of art that are familiar to us, but which prompt us to reconsider the world from a new perspective. ‘Water Tower Project’ explores the ambiguity between a sculpture that is physically present yet, paradoxically, ephemeral. ‘Water Tower’ is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. | Rights holder: | © Rachel Whiteread | Subjects: | ladder topography townscape/cityscape water tower | Temporal: | 1998 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Rachel Whiteread | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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