Location

Country: Germany
City: Berlin
Place: British Embassy

Catherine Yass produced this snail-like image and another, "Observatory", for the British Embassy in Berlin. The subject of "Pavilion" is the De La Warr Pavilion, a centre for contemporary arts in Bexhill on Sea, on the south coast of England. An icon of Modernist architecture, the Pavilion was designed in 1935 by Erich Mendelsohn, who was also the architect behind the Einstein Tower, the subject of Yass's companion work "Observatory". The heightened, intense colours of these works were produced by superimposing positive and negative transparencies onto one another and making tonal adjustments during the printing process. Catherine Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002.

Places

England, Sussex

Subjects

topography, pavilion

Materials & Techniques

light-box, photograph (as object name), transparency, colour transparency

Artist

Catherine Yass (1963 - )

Title

Pavilion

Date

2000

Medium

Colour transparency and light-box

Dimensions

height: 97.40 cm, width: 123.20 cm, depth: 12.80 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist, July 2000

Provenance

the artist

GAC number

17514