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Helen Chadwick.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, 2004 Paperback with flaps, 22.2 x 26.1 cm. 168 p. with 84 (73 col.) ills. Bibliography and Chronology. Text in English language. ISBN 9783775713931.
Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) is one of the eminent british artists of the 1980s and 90s. In 1987 she was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 1994 the London Serpentine Gallery held a high regarded exhibition of her work. In 1996 Chadwick died unforeseen at the height of her career. Desire is a recurring theme in her works. A lot of her works show her own naked body or were created with the use of extreme sensual material. The artist described the feelings that are evoked by her work as ?wonderfully gross, funny by choice, dangerously beautiful?. This monography is the first survey of the artist's body of work. It contains a number of her famous photographs, sculptures and installations, such as Viral Landscapes (1989-1991), some photographic works, in which Chadwick inserted her own body cells, Piss Flowers (1991/92), casts taken from holes that were left in snow after urination, as well as Cacao a fountain that excretes hot chocolate.
