Five Standing Bottles

"[The bottles] display something fragile and separate from the world, something that must be protected because it is unusual. The bottle, for Cragg, is therefore the allegorical place of the imagination; it holds the elixir, the potion, that makes the public fall in love and transforms the beloved. In this respect the bottle is similar to art; it leads to revelation and secret knowledge." (G. Celant, in: 'Tony Cragg', Milan 1996, p. 17.)