16 Sep—22 Oct 1994
Duke Street

In the ‘Unconscious Tokyo: Tokyo Cube’ series of photographs, Nobuyoshi Araki restlessly chronicled the urban life of his favourite Tokyo neighbourhood, Shinjuku—the city’s steamy, nocturnal nerve centre. For the White Cube show, Araki ran two lines of images around the entire...

24 Jun—10 Sep 1994


Sarah Lucas presented Bucket of Tea (1994) in the gallery space, a mobile suspended from the ceiling by a network of wires and rods, that featured four large, colour-photocopied self-portraits backed by mirrored styrene. The artist had made cut outs from a series of self-portr...

13 May—25 Jun 1994
Duke Street

Testing the boundaries of what can be considered acceptable as subject matter for art, Sean Landers creates paintings, sculptures and videos that are both confrontational and humorous. In the video he presented at White Cube, Remissionem Peccatorum (1994), Landers is witnessed...

1 Apr—7 May 1994
Duke Street

Antony Gormley exhibited a new sculpture called Lost Subject (1994). The starting point for the piece, as with earlier work, was a mould taken from his own body, which becomes a vehicle for feeling. Lost Subject marks a radical departure, as for the first time, Gormley make...

4 Mar—26 Mar 1994
Duke Street

The work of New York artist Paul Ramírez-Jonas derives from a fascination with prototypes. In his exhibition at White Cube, Ramírez-Jonas showed three kite models based on the designs of turn-of-the-century American inventors, such as Alexander Graham Bell, Walter Brooks and S...

11 Feb—26 Feb 1994
Duke Street

In contrast to Jeff Wall’s large-scale works, the single work he showed at White Cube, The Giant (1994), is small and claustrophobic. Wall’s composite image features a naked, elderly woman standing on the landing of a staircase in a busy library that could belong to a universi...

14 Jan—5 Feb 1994
Duke Street

Marcus Harvey’s large, brightly-coloured canvases, made active by broad sweeps of impasto paint, literally bear the mark of his hand. The impressions made in the thick surface of the paint scrape through the layers of colour and smear the different hues to create a highly agit...

19 Nov—9 Jan 1994
Duke Street

The title of Tracey Emin’s exhibition poignantly suggests the artist felt, rather than being at the beginning of her career, that significant things had already happened. The show comprised over a hundred objects Emin had collected over the years, in what constituted a continu...

8 Oct—6 Nov 1993
Duke Street

The New York-based Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto produces photographs in series. He meticulously selects and then researches subjects, returning to the same few time and time again, taking pictures and then producing technically immaculate black and white prints of absorbin...

17 Sep—2 Oct 1993
Duke Street

Gavin Turk continually explores what it means to be an artist. His investigations subject avant-garde preoccupations with notions of authorship, authenticity and originality, to a rigorous and playful scrutiny. To this end, Turk makes frequent appearances in his own work, in a...

16 Jul—11 Sep 1993
Duke Street

Marcus Taylor’s three large-scale sculptures, from his ‘Elevations’ series, explore traditionally sculptural notions of form and function, light and space. Resolutely minimal in appearance, these pared-down structures comprise just two or three geometric shapes. The hard-ed...

14 May—18 Jun 1993
Duke Street

For White Cube’s inaugural exhibition, the Israeli artist Itai Doron created a world in which celluloid dreams seemed to come true. In a series of airbrushed photomontages, Doron indulged in acts of cinematic wish-fulfilment via his alter ego, Mr D, a grinning, fresh-faced boy...