Rachel Whiteread and Mixografia
Squashed
2009
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Physical Qualities
Mixografia print, Sheet: 690 × 950 mm. (27 3/16 × 37 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number
2013.3
SQUASH. Best known as a sculptor who makes casts of the interior spaces of objects, such as the inside of a room, Rachel Whiteread has taken a flattened petrol can and used it to create a molded, highly textured print. Through a multi-step process, a once three-dimensional object has been given back its dimensionality in a medium that is generally two dimensional. The process of re-creating dimensionality was made possible
by working with moist paper pulp and ink simultaneously on the press. The result is an eerie and astonishing semblance of the original petrol can. Whiteread lives and works in London.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Mixografia, Los Angeles
Ann Shafer, "On Paper: Spin, Crinkle, Pluck," April 19 - September 20, 2015.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "29/42"; lower center in graphite: "Squashed"; lower right in graphite: "RWhiteread 2010"
