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 ...

23 Oct—21 Nov 1998
Duke Street

For their exhibition, Peter Fischli and David Weiss produced a new installation that involved the slide projection of hundreds of images of flora and fauna, superimposed onto and dissolving into one another. There is a strangeness in viewing this piece, a kind of double vision...

11 Sep—17 Oct 1998
Duke Street

The luminous and sensuous ‘Graphic Primitives’ paintings of New York-based artist Terry Winters are informed by a wide variety of sources ranging from architectural drawing and medical photography to computer graphics and direct observation. For Winters, painting is a non-line...

17 Jul—5 Sep 1998
Duke Street

Finnish artist Esko Männikkö presented a large number of photographs that portray people in and around their homes in the north of Finland. Männikkö stays with his subjects, getting to know them over several days (often joining them in hunting, fishing and drinking) before mak...

5 Jun—11 Jul 1998
Duke Street

Berlin-based artist Franz Ackermann presented a series of small works on paper, executed during a three-month journey that began in Los Angeles and took him to Las Vegas, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin and London. Ac...

28 Nov—30 May 1998


For what was his first London show, Andreas Slominski exhibited a series of home-made traps. Diverse in construction and style, they varied from a slatted wooden crate, designed to imprison unwitting badgers, to an intricate snare for hooking ermine. The varying scale and mate...

16 Jan—21 Feb 1998
Duke Street

The Italian-based photographer Walter Niedermayr is concerned with extending the potential of a single image—in his work, a picture is allowed to unfold as a series of fragments. The alpine landscapes shown at White Cube were presented as diptychs or triptychs, individually fr...

24 Oct—22 Nov 1997
Duke Street

Christian Schumann’s work was once described as ‘a bumpy road that seems to lead towards a technicolour adolescent apocalypse.’ At White Cube, Schumann showed works with an extra-terrestrial theme, taking viewers on a voyage through a compressed universe of spliced imagery and...

12 Sep—18 Oct 1997
Duke Street

Suite Vénitienne (1980-96): For months I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgo...