Tony Cragg: New Sculptures
WHAT
Focusing on his most recent bodies of work, the exhibition offers a view into the breadth of the artist’s latest formal developments, which are defined by his continual investigation into the possibilities of a wide range of materials and his exploration of both the natural and the man-made worlds. The works on view testify to several of his recent series, including his detailed steel ‘Incidents’ – svelte works that stand upright to belie the weight and strength of the material they are made from.
WHY
The artist’s abstract sculptures manifest entirely unprecedented forms that spark a sense of recognition as they gesture to the world around us. With curvaceous yet strikingly-spare forms jutting upwards to give a stark contrast between positive and negative space, they are awe-inspiring. The experience is compounded by the use of stainless steel, a material whose reflective quality mirrors back the visitor and surrounding space to give an impression of fleeting movement.