David Trood: Shooting animals and tin sheds
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"Detached 3" (2012), a work in concrete and steel by Rachel Whiteread. The artist's series is titled "Abject Objects."
Rachel Whiteread hasnt moved on in two decades. For Detached, her exhibition of sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery in London, she is doing exactly the same thing as when she first came to fame with House in 1993. She is still making casts of the internal space of structures.
House was a molding in concrete of the inside of an ordinary 19th-century dwelling. The centerpiece of the new show is made up of three casts of the interiors of garden sheds. This isnt so much a sign of lack of inspiration as a return to form.
It might sound like a criticism to say that an artist has not developed. Thats not necessarily so. Some artists innovate dynamically throughout their careers; you might call that the Picasso model. Others carry on doing the same thing, and -- so long as they carry on doing it well -- thats no disgrace.
The point of Whitereads work is that she is simultaneously a minimalist and a realist. The three concrete casts of sheds are placed in the middle of the main gallery at Gagosian very much as if they were big abstract sculptures by, say, Richard Serra or Donald Judd.
They have much the same chunky presence as works by those two artists. Whitereads work is not abstract. Go up close, and you find a meticulous record of the surface of ordinary things: wood grain, door fittings, the covering of the roof.
One of the traditional functions of art is to represent ordinary objects in a way that makes them seem beautiful and/or interesting. Suddenly sheds arent just boringly mundane.
Whiteread was one of the younger artists of the 1990s for whom the late Lucian Freud had most time. When you think about it, you can see why. He too spent a great deal of time reproducing such things as floorboards, doors and window frames. For that matter, Velasquez devoted a lot of effort to depicting a water pitcher, Caravaggio a peeling wall.
Whiteread isnt a painter but that quite unusual thing, a still-life sculptor. The challenge for an artist who makes pictures is to collapse the three dimensions of the world onto a flat surface. For a sculptor, the fundamental problem is to make an object that will be different enough from all the other 3D stuff in the world to seem interesting and maybe beautiful.
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MAHOMET Several thousand dollars' worth of items were stolen from two unlocked sheds on a Mahomet property between last fall and last week, according to Champaign County sheriff's deputies.
Sgt. Dan Coile said the owner of the property on County Road 100 E, about 2 miles north of Mahomet, reported to the sheriff's office last Friday that several items were missing from two sheds.
Among the missing items were a Bobcat with a bucket attachment, a manure spreader, two grain wagons, a pull-behind cart for a lawn mower, a welding stand, arc welder, a washer, dryer and refrigerator, with a total value of $9,900.
Anyone with information on this theft is asked to call the sheriff's office at 384-1213 or Champaign County Crimestoppers at 217-373-8477.Information may also be sent anonymously online at http://www.373tips.com or by cellphone text message by sending CCTIP plus the information to CRIMES (274637).
Crimestoppers will pay a reward if the information leads an arrest. Cash rewards are also paid for information on other felony crimes or fugitives in the Champaign County area.
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Allotment sheds have been burgled
Anthony Carroll Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:18 PM
Police are appealing for information after several burglaries of sheds on allotments in north Lowestoft.
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The first burglaries are thought to have happened between 6am on Monday and 6am on Tuesday when sheds on allotments at Water Lane were targeted.
One shed had its door removed and an old laptop computer with no battery and camping stoves were among the items stolen.
A second shed was broken into with a pair of blue and yellow builders gloves being stolen.
Then between 6.30pm on Tuesday and 6.45am on Wednesday, someone broke into a shed on allotments at St Margarets Road and stole two bantam hens one black with a white streak on her head, the other a caramel colour.
Anyone with information should call PC Gary Brown or PC Graham Baker at Lowestoft police station on 101.
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#39;Sheds #39; on Bescot ~ Wrexham works train 9/4/13
66121 TNT 66201 On the regular evening works train to Wrexham. Filmed at Codsall 9/4/13. Thanks to175cal for info.
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Archaeological Discovery Sheds New Light on Roman London
An archeological discovery sheds new light on Roman London. Archaeologists have uncovered what is being called the Pompeii of the north: an area of London wi...
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Bonebed Sheds Light on Dino Embryo Development
A 190-million-year-old dinosaur bonebed has revealed for the first time how dinosaur embryos grew and developed in their eggs. Source: Univ. of Toronto Read ...
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April 11 (BusinessDesk) Warehouse Group chief executive Mark Powell is toning down the use of red in the retailers iconic Red Sheds as part of efforts to give shoppers a better experience and shake the cheap and nasty image.
Red is a very aggressive colour, Powell told reporters in Wellington. The company is aiming to be discount and contemporary, not cheap and nasty, he said.
As part of a store-by-store $1.5 million refit, the use of red paint is being toned down on the outside of the stores and inside grey racking is replacing red shelves, which could be a bit oppressive, he said.
Powell led a tour of the Warehouse Porirua store to show off the finished product. About 100 sub-standard brands that spoil our image have been weeded off the shelves from a range of 60,000 products.
The retailer has replaced brands including Cascade small home appliances and is phasing out Transonic electronics such as stereos and televisions. In place is Kensington, a house brand for appliances, and an exclusive multi-year deal with Haier to launch an entry level washing machine, the Aspira, which will sell at $599 and $699. It has also added the Sony, Veon and Kambrook brands.
Powell, who was promoted to CEO from head of Warehouse Stationery in 2011, says the company is making up for a decade of underperformance.
Founder Stephen Tindall did an amazing job in the retailers first two decades then we just had a lost decade, we lost our way for 10 years, Powell said.
He also acknowledged previous missteps at the retailer, including 2008s Project Invigorate that took 500 workers out of the stores and didnt leave enough to stock the shelves.
Warehouse has made four acquisitions in the past six months online retailer Topedo7, appliance retailer Noel Leeming, specialist importers Insight Traders (which has sourced perfumes among other lines) and online distribution firm Complete Entertainment Services.
Several pigs were killed Thursday night in a fire that destroyed three sheds in the town of Deerfield, authorities reported.
A heat lamp is believed to be the cause of the fire that was reported at about 9 p.m. Thursday at 168 Fair Oaks Road, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The pigs were in one shed and the other two sheds contained miscellaneous equipment, the release said.
All three sheds and contents are considered a total loss.
No one was injured.
Dane County deputies and the Lake Mills and Deerfield fire departments arrived to find the sheds already fully engulfed.
"Fire personnel were able to extinguish all three fires within a short period of time," said Sheriff's Office Lt. Charles Immel in the release.
No dollar estimate of damage was given.
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