Artists

Tacita Dean

Press release

The exhibition at Golden Square brings together new works on slate and glass, an edition of prints as well as the first showing of a 39-minute 16mm film, _If I were in the Adlon._ The title _Black, Grey, Green and White_ is from _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, and is taken from the artist's copy of _A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare,_ which she often uses to title her drawings on slate. The colours symbolise the play's contrasting worlds and resonated with her in the context of the exhibition due to the hues of the different surfaces she is currently using. Dean has been drawing on found, grey school slates for over a decade but was recently given some that had been painted green (from the era when that colour was considered to be gentler on the eye). The paint had oxidised creating a febrile powdery surface, which necessitated a change of approach to how it could be worked with.