Tony Cragg (b. 1949)

Untitled

細節

Tony Cragg (b. 1949)
Untitled
sandstone sculpture in seven elements
69 x 54 x 48in. (175 x 137 x 122cm.)
Executed in 1988.

來源

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

展覽

Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D. C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Toronto, The Power Plant; and Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Tony Cragg--Sculpture 1975-1990, October 1990-February 1992, p. 155, no. 26 (illustrated).

拍品專文

Tony Cragg's interest in scientific knowledge, in particular geology, informs this work. He takes a natural material, sandstone, and constructs layered objects that resemble the apparatus of scientific research. Cragg trained as a scientist and his habits of working are an amalgam of research and poetry, aiming to expand man's consciousness and understanding of the world.

Cragg told Demosthene Davvetas in 1985, "People are constantly talking about progress, yet they seem to forget that the progress they are talking about is only material, whereas man himself, his basic condition hardly evolves... The quality of creative imagination can improve, so can our appreciation of the world." (quoted in A. Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, p. 122)