TONY CRAGG (B. 1949)

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Details

TONY CRAGG (B. 1949)
Untitled
5 wooden elements
76 x 84 x 84in. (193 x 213 x 213cm.)
Executed in 1988

Provenance

Galerie Crousel-Robelin-Bama, Paris.
Private Collection, Paris.
On long-term loan to IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia 1992-96.

Literature

P. Sterckx, "Tony Cragg presentation de la sculpture," Art Studio, no. 10-" La Sculpture a l'Anglaise", Paris 1988, p. 119 (illustrated). Connaissance des Arts, no. 464, Paris Oct. 1990, p. 70 (illustrated). Grand Lignes, Beaux Arts- Hors serie, Paris 1991, p. 53 (illustrated). "Tony Cragg; dibujos Drawings 1991-2", Valencia 1993, p. 163 (illustrated).
G. Celant & D. Eccher, "Tony Cragg," Milan 1994, no. 15, pp. 90-91 (illustrated).
G. Celant, "Tony Cragg", New York 1996, no.90, pp. 156-157 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Crousel-Robelin-Bama, "Tony Cragg", Sept.-Oct. 1988.
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, "Tony Cragg", May-June 1989
(illustrated in the catalogue pp. 18-19).
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, "Tony Cragg," Jan.- March 1992 (illustrated in the catalogue).

Descriptif du lot

"I want objects to stand there just like they should be there, like they have actually earned their place. So that it's a self-understood thing that they are there and that they have a particular visual quality. They're there and they want a dialogue on the basis of all the other things that are in the world, and not on the basis of a particular group of objects which one has called, in the past, 'sculpture'. That's a fundamantal tenet of my approach to making sculpture. So one has to be very aware of formal qualities. For me a sculpture will only work if its form is right." ("Tony Cragg", London 1978, p. 14.)

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