Whiteread’s work addresses time, so the fact that time is built into the piece itself is appropriate,” she says. “Some works go up on a nail on the wall, while others take two weeks.
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Donovan is more philosophical about the time needed to install Ghost. While Ozone had hoped to streamline the process of installing and deinstalling Ghost, the treatment only managed to shave four days off the process, which ended up taking two weeks.
Ozone agrees: “We have all come away with a tremendous amount of respect for her working method, attention to detail and knowledge of materials.” It’s a testament to how it was made that the piece hasn’t needed treatment until now,” she says. Whiteread never thought Ghost would last as long as it has, Donovan says. Unlike Whiteread, who screwed the plaster panels directly into the armature, Ozone devised a hanging system that avoided screwing anything into the plaster. They also created a “shadow” aluminium armature to complement the existing armature, which is made of standard shelving brackets, using a “Lego-like” framing system called 80/20.
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Ozone found a creative way to reintroduce the artist’s handwriting by asking Whiteread to write out a series of numbers and letters so vinyl versions could be printed and attached to the panels. But doing this meant losing Whiteread’s original markings.
The team decided to apply a layer of Jesmonite-a water-based adhesive that she had used in other works-to the back of the original panels to strengthen them. Ozone and her team examined each of Ghost’s 86 panels, researched various materials, created test panels and discussed treatment options with Whiteread. “They’re made of plaster of Paris, so any small crack travels because there is nothing to stop it.”
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“We discovered that one of the foundation panels was cracked when we were unpacking the crates,” says the senior objects conservator Judy Ozone.
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It was only in January 2016, when a trial reinstallation was attempted, that staff realised that Ghost needed treatment. Ghost was on view for nine years until it was taken down in 2013 before the renovation of the museum’s East Wing building. It was her first room-sized cast, made when she was just 27, and led to the creation of an even more ambitious work, her Turner Prize-winning House (1993). He was once a friend to the late Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen in the beginning of the film. Ghost, a life-sized cast of the sitting room of a vacant Victorian home in north London, is widely considered to be Whiteread’s breakthrough work. Carl Bruner is the hidden main antagonist of the 1990 film Ghost. Mezzogiorno Restaurant, 200 Spring Street and Sullivan Street, Manhattan.įederal Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall Street and Broad Street, Manhattan.Ghost (1990) is a life-sized cast of a sitting room in a north London Victorian house Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art Mercer Street and Prince Street, Manhattan. Myrtle Station, Myrtle Avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn. Subway, Franklin Street and West Broadway, Manhattan. Subway, 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street, Manhattan. Go through the ticket barrier and stand on the platform of Franklin Street station before boarding the train! To see that they go into the subway station on 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street, near to West 4th Street. OtsoNY Comments: It is amusing to see that Patrick Swayze's character follows Willie Lopez into the subway. Sam and Molly's Apartment, 102 Prince Street and Greene Street, Manhattan.Ĭlick HERE for more pictures and information about the apartment.Ĭrosby Street (btw Spring Street and Prince Street) Manhattan.
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