TONY CRAGG (B. 1949)

Untitled

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).

Lot Essay

"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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