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| Image: Witness. Artist: Susan Hiller. |
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 This major exhibition of British sculpture is the result of a collaboration between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the British Council. Comprising 61 works by 23 artists, the exhibition covers the 40 year period 1961-2001 and provides the first opportunity for audiences in Taiwan to see something of the spirit and invention that has characterised British art during this exceptional period. |
 Susan Hiller was selected to represent Britain at the seventh Havana Bienale with her work Witness, a major sound installation. A formation of hundreds of tiny audio speakers hanging in a darkened environment emit a chorus of murmuring voices, each recounting a sighting of a mysterious vision or inexplicable phenomenon. |
 On 1st June 2000, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Chair of the British Council, unveiled a new sculpture on the ‘fifth plinth’, a site at the top of the Mall within hailing distance of Trafalgar Square. The work, Reel 3 by Phillip King, measures seven square metres and is made from six separate pieces of steel vividly painted in magenta, orange and blue. |
 The British Council and the Henry Moore Foundation jointly organised a major exhibition of the work of Henry Moore for China, which opened in Beijing on 16 October 2000. The grandeur of Moore's sculpture, combined with its feel for natural forms and its essential humanity, were particularly striking in China, which until recently has remained relatively isolated from Western developments in art. |
 At the invitation of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, we organised the first exhibition of British art ever to be seen in the Islamic Republic, covering developments in British sculpture during the 20th century, from Hepworth’s stringed compositions and Gilbert & George’s early videos to Damien Hirst’s use of a real skeleton in his new work, Resurrection, never shown before, and debuting in Iran. |
 This is the first solo exhibition in Latin America of work by one of Britain’s most acclaimed young artists, Rachel Whiteread. She has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in Europe and America over the last decade, won the Turner prize in 1993 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1997. |
 A massive sculptural installation of 190,000 hand-sized clay figures, made under the guidance of Antony Gormley by 350 local people from Xiangshan village, near Guangzou in south China. |
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