Tony Cragg
Bent of Mind (2002)
© The Artist; photograph: Charles Duprat
Tony Cragg at the National Gallery, Scotland Tony Cragg, one of the world’s greatest living sculptors, is the subject of a major summer exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. 30 July – 6 November 2011.]]>
Source: National Gallery of Modern Art / theartwolf.com
Born 9 April 1949 in Liverpool, Tony Cragg is one of the most important British sculptors of the last decades. He studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, the Wimbledon School of Art (1969−1973), and at the Royal College of Art (1973–1977). In 1977, he moved to Wuppertal in Germany, where he has lived since. Cragg is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1988, he won the Turner Prize.
The exhibition “Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings” displays several monumental sculptures made in the last fifteen years, and it also shows a number of significant earlier works, and a large selection of drawings, watercolours and prints. Sculpures from two of his most important series -“Early Forms” and “Rational Beings”- comprise the major component of the show.
“Early Forms” is Cragg’s longest-running series of cast works. The press note explains that the series is “a vast array of unique sculptural forms, derived from a diverse range of vessel types – from ancient flasks to test-tubes, jam jars and detergent bottles”. Works from the “Rational Beings” series are “tall columnar forms [in different materials] in which facial profiles emerge and disappear as one walks around them”.
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