Tacita Dean

Frith Street Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Tacita Dean unfolding the two spaces in Golden Square and Soho Square.

For the Golden Square gallery, Dean created a set for The Dante Project, a new commission by The Royal Ballet based on Dante Alighieri’s poem The Divine Comedy while, in the lower gallery, Dean is showing a new 50-minute film titled One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting. The film is a conversation between the artists Julie Mehretu and the late Luchita Hurtado, a conversation between two fabulous women and great painters, discussing their lives and their painting.

At the Soho Square gallery, the two works on display are Monet Hates Me (the title comes from the artist’s discovery of a letter from Claude Monet to Camille Pissarro where his handwriting appears to read ‘hate tacita’), conceived as ‘an exhibition in a box’, and Pan Amicus, a 31-minute film, which was commissioned in celebration of twenty years of the Getty Center’s Richard Meier building where Dean stayed as artist-in-residence in 2014-15 producing these works.