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Tacita Dean — Paradise
Tacita Dean

Paradise

2021

Paradise (2021) unfolds as a 35mm color anamorphic film accompanied by Thomas Adès's original score "Paradiso," creating an immersive 24-and-a-half-minute meditation that moves between the terrestrial and the transcendent. Dean filmed in the Canary Islands, capturing volcanic landscapes, ancient forests, and oceanic horizons through the wide, enveloping format that anamorphic photography uniquely enables. The result is a work that operates simultaneously as cinema, as landscape painting, and as philosophical inquiry, with Adès's music neither illustrating the imagery nor competing with it, but existing in a kind of sovereign parallel that deepens the emotional register of the whole. Dean's longstanding commitment to analog film as both medium and subject is fully present here, the grain and warmth of 35mm carrying an almost tactile weight that digital processes cannot replicate. This is the third of four editions plus one artist's proof, situating the collector within an extremely limited field of ownership for a work of significant institutional ambition. Dean's films have entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou, and her collaborations with composers of Adès's stature reflect the serious intellectual world in which her practice operates. Presented by Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, Paradise represents the kind of acquisition that bridges the collection of moving image work with the longer tradition of object-based collecting, as the film's physical materiality, its celluloid existence, is central to its meaning and its value. For collectors attentive to works that carry genuine formal rigor alongside lyrical beauty, this piece stands as an exceptional example of Dean's mature vision.

Medium
With music, "Paradiso" by Thomas Adès 35mm color anamorphic film, optical sound; 24 1/2 minutes Edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof (#3/4)

Notes

From MGG LA — Trial of the Finger. SKU: 22457.

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Tacita Dean, Paradise, 2021

Paradise (2021) unfolds as a 35mm color anamorphic film accompanied by Thomas Adès's original score "Paradiso," creating an immersive 24-and-a-half-minute meditation that moves between the terrestrial and the transcendent. Dean filmed in the Canary Islands, capturing volcanic landscapes, ancient forests, and oceanic horizons through the wide, enveloping format that anamorphic photography uniquely enables. The result is a work that operates simultaneously as cinema, as landscape painting, and as philosophical inquiry, with Adès's music neither illustrating the imagery nor competing with it, but existing in a kind of sovereign parallel that deepens the emotional register of the whole. Dean's longstanding commitment to analog film as both medium and subject is fully present here, the grain and warmth of 35mm carrying an almost tactile weight that digital processes cannot replicate. This is the third of four editions plus one artist's proof, situating the collector within an extremely limited field of ownership for a work of significant institutional ambition. Dean's films have entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou, and her collaborations with composers of Adès's stature reflect the serious intellectual world in which her practice operates. Presented by Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, Paradise represents the kind of acquisition that bridges the collection of moving image work with the longer tradition of object-based collecting, as the film's physical materiality, its celluloid existence, is central to its meaning and its value. For collectors attentive to works that carry genuine formal rigor alongside lyrical beauty, this piece stands as an exceptional example of Dean's mature vision.

Medium
With music, "Paradiso" by Thomas Adès 35mm color anamorphic film, optical sound; 24 1/2 minutes Edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof (#3/4)
Year
2021
Seen at
Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Related themes

Seascape, Living Artist, Blue Chip, Contemplative, Conceptual, Vibrant, Installation, Place, Spirituality, Landscape, Large Format, Limited Edition, Nature, 35mm Film, British, Female Artist, Video, Warm Tones, Experimental Film, Contemporary

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