Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum
Previous image 1 2 3 4 / 4 Next image

Tacita Dean

Kronos

Maker

Tacita Dean (English, b. 1965 in Canterbury, UK)

Title

Kronos

Year

2004

Medium

  • Incised alabaster (triptych)

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Incised alabaster (triptych)

Materials

Alabaster

Geography

Place Made: Western

Dimensions

61 x 61 x 1.9 cm (24 x 24 x 3/4 inches) (each)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2006.4

Type

  • Sculpture

Publications

  • Books

Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

Exhibition History

Made in the UK
Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
Sep 23, 2011 – Jan 08, 2012
Multi-Part Art
Contemporary Works in the Collection
Jul 11, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009

Label copy

Tacita Dean started to draw into alabaster during a stay in Italy in 2002. She was intrigued with the particular qualities of this stone. Its translucent surface is extremely soft and fragile, so it can easily be scratched and scored to leave white lines on the surface. In Kronos, which refers to the personification of time in Greek mythology, Dean “maps” the particular characteristics of the stone by tracing the veins, stains, and imperfections with the delicate etching and adding notations of her own signs and directions along the route. Through this process of weaving her own personal journey together with the physical nature of the material, the artist contemplates the subject of time itself and makes her subtle interventions part of a larger geological, geographical, and social history.

Related Objects

No Image Available

Tacita Dean

Kronos
No Image Available

Tacita Dean

Kronos
No Image Available

Tacita Dean

Kronos

More objects +

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

In copyright This object is in copyright

Tombstone

Tacita Dean (English, b. 1965 in Canterbury, UK)
Kronos, 2004
Incised alabaster (triptych)
61 x 61 x 1.9 cm (24 x 24 x 3/4 inches) (each)
Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art 2006.4

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Main Navigation

  • Visit

    • Hours & Admission
    • Accessibility & Amenities
    • Tours & Group Visits
    • Visitor Guidelines
  • Art & Design

    • Collection Research
    • Collection
    • Past Exhibitions
  • Join / Give

    • Become a Member
    • Give
  • Exhibitions & Events

    • Exhibitions
    • Events
  • Watch / Listen / Read

    • The Latest
    • Publications
    • Articles
    • Audio & Video

Footer Secondary Navigation

  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use
Tickets
Homepage
Go to the risd.edu homepage. This link will open in a new window.