Rational beings tony cragg biography images

And then the simple geometries in utilitarian things. In that time, I created my first exhibitions in the mid-seventies, one-man shows, and was involved in group exhibitions. The next step… ME: When was that? Britain was not a happy place. In the early eighties, I realised I had to go back to my studio, had to change that way of working.

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So every term we have has been found in the material world. Mart Engelen: When you were a young artist, which artists did you admire? When you see how ugly everything is built: Simple geometries, flat straight edge boring right angle, a repetitive and inferior world we build in a sense. Cragg understands sculpture as a study of how material and material forms affect and form our ideas and emotions.

Stacks are here too — with his signature layered columns — as well as a new direction represented by a recently made sculpture, Industrial Nature Where should I go for dinner this evening? I went to seven schools, with different syllabuses everywhere. ME: How do we see the current situation visually in your new work? Aluminium, x x cm.

The Early Forms works explore the possibilities of sculpturally reforming familiar objects such as containers into new and unfamiliar forms producing new emotional responses, relationships and meanings.

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What I do feel though, sculpture is a radical activity—a radical, rare and human activity. Runner, Utilitarianism forces us to make dumb decisions about the forms we make. Nowadays we live in a world … I mean, what kind of content is there? I took certain things out of all the early work I made and I still have a big store of objects I collected and everything.

Cragg's evolution as an artist has been influenced by a variety of factors, notably a short stint as a laboratory technician shortly after leaving school. You are born with an empty head. Nothing like nature: beautiful colours—and then look at what happens when human beings make them. An enormous world. With that freedom you are allowed to experience things.

At the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, all sculpture was figurative and used very few materials. There: a Feeling Gregg Bordowitz. These found assemblage works were incredibly important - providing a subject of themes and an arsenal of knowledge of materials that is still important in the works he is still making today.