7 Apr—29 Apr 2000
Duke Street

Miroslaw Balka’s installation, ‘Quit’ was made up of several distinct but interrelated elements. A steel cable wound with hair spanned the gallery and extended into the adjoining space, and two ceiling-mounted, oblong lamps—whose dimensions corresponded to some of those of the...

25 Feb—1 Apr 2000
Duke Street

Neal Tait’s paintings possess a kind of blankness; it is as if he invests his work with a silent presence that holds the viewer at distance. The artist’s subjects have what he calls a ‘sealed-in-ness’ that recalls the on-screen ‘closedness’ of characters found in Fassbinder f...

21 Jan—19 Feb 2000
Duke Street

For his exhibition, Steven Gontarski presented a series of fetishist and futuristic sculptures, cast in fibreglass and sprayed with high-gloss paint. Before this exhibition, Gontarski was largely identified with his life-size, part-transparent, part-shiny, silver-skinned scul...

26 Nov—15 Jan 2000
Duke Street

American artist Nan Goldin made an installation of photographs that depict events spanning the period of her life from 1973 to 1999—a kind of micro-retrospective, the show covered the gallery walls from floor to ceiling. It created an intense, shrine-like environment that com...

29 Oct—20 Nov 1999
Duke Street

Damian Loeb’s paintings are like fantasy documentaries that combine imagery borrowed from fashion magazines, old master paintings, film stills and music videos to achieve seamless narrative paintings, executed in a hyper-realistic style. These cinematic works cannot easily be ...

10 Sep—23 Oct 1999
Duke Street

Katharina Fritsch is essentially an image-maker. In her work, Fritsch draws a line between the physical actuality of an object, and its existence as an image in the mind. The artist traces her choice of objects back to visions she has had, and her imagery is an idiosyncratic m...

23 Jun—4 Sep 1999
Duke Street

For his White Cube exhibition acclaimed American artist Chuck Close presented a new series of paintings. Since the late 1960s Close has been concentrating on portraiture and on the physiological make up of the human face through painting and photography. Close often takes his ...

28 May—17 Jul 1999
Duke Street

‘Pictures, if they are to have an effect, must have the tremendous intensity of silence.’ Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans often approaches an exhibition by making a group of paintings that address an idea related to the location of the exhibition. ‘Splendid Isolation’—a phrase used...

23 Apr—22 May 1999
Duke Street

Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura’s exhibition featured three new works that radically metamorphose Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. These iconoclastic works present the Mona Lisa in different states of transformation. In each of the images, Morimura superimposes how own face a...

12 Mar—17 Apr 1999


For their White Cube show, Jake and Dinos Chapman showed two sets of eighty-three etchings from their Disasters of War series. One hand-coloured set was shown in the gallery, with another black and white set displayed in the adjoining room. Employing classical etching techniqu...

5 Feb—6 Mar 1999
Duke Street

Anna Gaskell’s exhibition was inspired by the Brothers Grimm story, The Magic Donkey, a macabre tale about a girl who crafts a costume from animal hides in order to escape the advances of her father. The title ‘hide’ references the children’s game hide-and-seek, and the split...

27 Nov—6 Feb 1999
Duke Street

Michael Joo presented a work entitled Conserving Momentum (Egg/Gyro/Laundry Room) (1998), a freewheeling gyroscopic structure consisting of five concentrically arranged stainless-steel rings. Together, these described the form of a sphere, each part of which could be manually ...