GILLIAN WHITE. Dance in Steel, 40 Years`Work - Tanz in Eisen, Werke aus 40 Jahren

GILLEN WHITE (1939-)

Sculptor Gillian White has gained wide recognition for her monumental steel sculptures, the majority of them commissioned for public spaces in Switzerland. White’s unique contribution to contemporary Swiss sculpture has never been examined until now.
Gillian White. Dance in Steel focuses on her public sculptures and her art-in-architecture works, as well as her paintings and small, playful sculptures. Many of Gillian White’s abstract shapes are informed by her early education at the Elmhurst School of Dance in Camberley, Surrey, and her life-long interest in contemporary dance. The many rich images of her precisely composed works are complemented by critical essays and personal texts by art writers and contemporaries. A beautiful introduction to the oeuvre of one of Europe’s most significant contemporary sculptors.

Gillian White, born in Orpington, Kent (UK) in 1939, attended ballet school but for health reasons had to give up her training to be a dancer at the age of 15. Instead she decided to study art at St Martin’s School of Art in London. From 1956 to 1960 she was taught there by Anthony Caro and Elizabeth Frink. In 1960 White went to Paris where she studied under Ossip Zadkine at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts and worked on large-scale sculpture in the studio of François Stahly. She met the sculptor Albert Siegenthaler in Paris and married him in 1962. The couple moved to London and had two children before settling down in Switzerland in 1966. There Gillian White has continued to develop her own work until the present day. She has received considerable recognition and taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Sabine Altorfer, born 1956, is the cultural editor of the Aargauer Zeitung / Mittelland Zeitung and lives in Baden.

Anne Blonstein, born 1958 in England, has been living in Basel since 1983 working as a freelance translator and lecturer.

Uli Däster, born 1942, works an art critic. Teacher at the Aargau Kantonsschule in Baden, 1984–1996 member of the Aargau Kuratorium for the Promotion of Culture.

Jochen Hesse, born 1965, is in charge of the collection of graphics of the Zentralbibliothek Zurich. 2000–2008 scientific collaborator at the Swiss Institute for Art Research. Numerous publications especially on iron sculpture and graphics.

Erica Pedretti, born 1930 in Czechoslovakia, came to Switzerland after the war. Writes and works as a sculptor in La Neuveville. Numerous publications and exhibitions.

Frieda Vogt-Baumann, born 1945, worked since 1990 in teacher training, also engaged in politics especially cultural politics.

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Emne	Skulptur
Kunstner	WHITE, Gillian
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Sprog	Engelsk/tysk tekst
Illustrationer	154 ill, heraf 124 i farver
Format / Sideantal	26 x 30 cm / 168 sider
Udgivelsesår	2009
Indbinding	Indbundet
Forlag	Scheidegger & Spiess
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ISBN	9783858812513
Lev.	3-5 dage

GILLEN WHITE (1939-)

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GILLIAN WHITE. Dance in Steel, 40 Years`Work - Tanz in Eisen, Werke aus 40 Jahren