Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to host a comprehensive solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg (b 1949), one of the most distinguished contemporary sculptors, in the vast halls of the gallery space in Paris Pantin.
The exhibition features 25 new sculptures of steel, bronze, wood, fibreglass and stone. The exhibition coincides with one of the artist’s solo exhibitions at the Eremitage St. Petersburg (March to June 2016) and a retrospective at the Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal (April to August 2016).
Cragg’s sculptural œuvre was originally motivated by his encounter with English Land Art and Performance, and is still distinguished by an immense wealth of surprising formal inventions and combinations. Cragg sees himself as a materialist, constantly seeking to explore and expand new materials.
In recent years, heads and faces have been appearing like leitmotivs in Cragg’s work. A morphing circular movement shapes the rhythm of the sculptures. Overlapping, layering and convolution give rise to body landscapes forming positives and negatives, asserting a form and at the same time mapping out their vacant spaces. Tony Cragg’s distinguishing feature is his primary concern to find new, unprecedented forms that amaze the viewer by their unusual biomorphic and technoid references.
Tony Cragg
21.02.2016 – 09.07.2016
Images courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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