Rachel Whiteread's New Works at Lorcan O'Neill, Rome

The British artist Rachel Whiteread (born 1965 in Ilford) presents a solo exhibition titled "New Works" at Galleria Lorcan O'Neill in Rome. The show features pieces created over the past year, continuing her signature technique of casting negative space using materials like resin, cement, plaster, stone, and metal. Works include translucent resin casts of windows in delicate colors—Untitled (Luce Verde) (2020), Untitled (Morning I) (2024), and Untitled (Entrata Lilac) (2024)—which engage with the gallery's space and reference modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos. A series of corrugated sheet metal casts in papier-mâché, painted with bright colors and gold/silver leaf, occupy the back wall, their frames lending an overly aestheticized industrial look. The series Bergamo V (2023), made for a project in Bergamo, comprises five volumes casting the space under chairs in speckled colored stone. Whiteread, the first woman to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1997, is noted for paving the way for artists like Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas. The exhibition runs at Lorcan O'Neill in Rome.