The artist currently showing on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is to get a major London exhibition next year.
Michael Rakowitz, the Iraqi-American artist who was chosen for the 2018 edition of the prestigious commission, will be the subject of the Whitechapel Gallery’s summer exhibition opening in June 2019.
The show will be the first major European survey of his work, and will take the form of a series of installations that draw from architecture and cultural histories, mixing them with contemporary pop culture and consequences of conflict.
The exhibition will also feature work from Rakowitz’s project to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites.
His current Fourth Plinth work, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, is part of this project, replicating the sculpture of winged bull Iamassu which was destroyed by ISIS at the gates of Nineveh in 2015. The sculpture reimagines the work made out of date syrup cans.
Next year will also see the Whitechapel Gallery host a retrospective spanning half a century of work by Brazil-based artist Anna Maria Maiolino, as well as a presentation by Max Mara Prize for Women winner Helen Cammock and a celebration of Rachel Whiteread, the winner of the gallery’s Art Icon award.
Michael Rakowitz will run at the Whitechapel Gallery form June 3 - August 25 2019. For more information, visit whitechapelgallery.org
by Ailis Brennan
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