When you asked me how long it took me to work on the show I said 12 months, but there’s also a sense of “I’m coming home, and I’m communicating to my granddad.” My brother’s going to see the show, my uncle is going to see the show, and it’ll be the first time he’s ever seen my work. So I might say I’ve been working on it since I was born. – Michael Dean
Addressing the timeless subject of human intimacy, references to the human body are recurrent throughout Dean’s works. Casts of his and his children's fists, limbs and fingers with drilled out eye holes and tongue muscles appear among the forms. The latter of these is particularly emblematic of Dean’s overlapping interest in touch and language, since it is the part of the body which can feel, as well as taste, and which also molds words before they leave our mouths.
Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom) lives and works in London.
Dean has studied at the Goldsmiths University of London and has since gained international stature as one of the four finalists of the 2016 Turner Prize. He participated in the 2017 Skulptur Projekte in Münster and was nominated for the 2018 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Dean's works are in several prominent institutional collections, such as Tate, Henry Moore Foundation, Walker Art Center, S.M.A.K., Arts Council Collection, KADIST, The Hepworth Wakefield and Nasher Sculpture Center.
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An Introduction to the Principles of Symmetrical Intimacy Vol. I
Michael Dean And The Authors, 2011Softcover, 103 pagesRead more
Publisher: Kunstverein Freiburg
ISBN: 9783981126822
Dimensions: 17 x 11 cm -
Now Leaves
Michael Dean, 2015Softcover, 640 pagesRead more
Publisher: Book Works and Wysing Arts Centre
ISBN: 9781906012717
Dimensions: 16,8 x 12 cm
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