Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1 - 24 May 2008

Anthony Caro: Selected Works

John Daly proudly presents the first one-man exhibition ever of Anthony Caro's work in Ireland, where the sculptor's work has previously only been seen in the context of a few group exhibitions: ROSC in 1977 and two Arts Council touring exhibitions visiting Letterkenny in 2002 and 2004.

The exhibition will span the period 1977 to 2005 and focus on steel and bronze works. Caro's work in steel will be illustrated with three important large steel works - Emma Wave (1977/79), Toward Centre (1984) and Descent (1985) - as well as a steel table piece S11 (1992/94). The bronze works illustrate how Caro often produces series around the same theme, with works from the Court series and Cubic series from the early 1990s and the Concerto series from around 2000. The exhibition also includes three works of brass combined with bronze or wood, and is rounded off with two works in paper from the Obama series from 1990/2.

A catalogue with an introduction by Michael Warren will accompany the exhibition.
 

Annely Juda Fine Art, Dering Street, London
13 September - 26 October 2007

Anthony Caro: New Galvanised Steel Sculptures

Annely Juda Fine Art presents the first exhibition of a series of new galvanised sculptures by Anthony Caro.

Caro is internationally renowned for his steel sculptures, ranging from large outdoor works to small lyrical tabletop pieces. This exhibition includes four monumental galvanised sculptures and one ungalvanised steel/wood work, all made in 2005-7. The largest, Jupiter, is almost 4 metres long and 2.5 metres high. The dialogue between sculpture and architecture is a major interest of Caro's and these new sculptures are the latest to explore this area, often incorporating found steel objects such as girders, mesh, tubes, etc. These works are, however, the first in which the steel has been galvanised. The silver sheen of the zinc coating complements coloured elements which recall Caro's famous painted sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibition is held on two floors, including the recently expanded third floor gallery space, and has been organised in collaboration with Mitchell-Innes and Nash Gallery in New York, (see below).

A hardback book has been published to coincide with the exhibitions, including illustrations of more than 30 sculptures in the galvanised series with articles by Kosme de Baranano and Karen Wilkin.

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea, New York
18 October - 21 November 2007

Anthony Caro: New Galvanised Sculptures

Michell-Innes & Nash presents its third Anthony Caro exhibition since the gallery became his exclusive US market representative in 2002. It will be his first exhibition at its Chelsea gallery, opened in September 2005.

The exhibition unveils a completely new body of work, created over the past two years by the 83-year-old artist. It features five large-scale galvanised and painted sculptures, all on view for the first time, ranging in size from 7-10 feet high and weighing approx. 2 tons each. Their abstract forms are created by assembling, articulating ,welding and galvanising large pieces of steel. Like much of Caro's work over the past 20 years, this series alludes to ideas of navigating interior spaces, enclosures and pathways to exterior spaces.

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New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire
12 May – 16 September 2007

Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling

This exhibition celebrates the long partnership of one of this country's most respected artist couples: Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling. It is the first time the artists have exhibited together for ten years.

Anthony Caro's Flats are a series of monumental welded and bolted steel sculptures produced at York Steel Company in Toronto in 1974. The steel of the Flats sculptures is thicker and heavier than anything Caro had used before. With the use of cranes at York Steel, he was able to weld and cut the heavy steel. The resulting 38 sculptures are exuberant and assured large constructions, with the brown texture of rusted steel. The 12 sculptures shown at Roche Court were part of the original exhibition at York University, Toronto, but several of them have never been seen in the UK before.

In the gallery, Sheila Girling shows a series of paintings. She uses pumice gel medium and acrylic paint to explore the rich colour and textures revealed by the weathering of architectural surfaces, such as walls and doors, in a variety of climates. Her work incorporates elements of collage and acrylic paint. Her most recent solo exhibition took place in 2006 at the IVAM, Valencia, Spain. She has work in the Royal Collection at Windsor; Museum Würth, Germany; Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; IVAM, Valencia and numerous other public and private collections.

Catalogues will be available for both exhibitions with essays by Jeremy Hunt and Hannah Westley.

Musée Rodin, rue Varenne, Paris
15 June 2006 - 18 February 2007

Cour d'honneur: After Olympia

For a period of over 30 years after World War II, the Musée Rodin introduced the public to contemporary sculpture by exhibiting a series of monumental works in its park. It now revives this tradition by presenting Anthony Caro's After Olympia in its 'cour d'honneur'.

Like a number of other works from the second half of the 1980s, After Olympia (1986-87) was inspired by Caro's first visit to Greece in 1985, about which he has said:'I was bowled over. For me the most excellent are the archaic sculptures, among them the pediments and metopes of Olympia.Instead of the separate sharded parts,statues, that I know from my studies, I now saw the sculptures more as they were originally conceived - sensual rolling forms and figures contained, even forced, into strict architectural shapes. The contrast of the volumetric moving forms is set against the crisp and the geometric' (1989).

The sculpture, which was purchased by the EPAD in 1990, has been on long-term display at La Defense and has also been shown at Top Gallant Farm in New York State, on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, at the Tate Gallery in London and the Trajan Markets in Rome. Caro told Robert Hopper: 'The experience of showing a very long sculpture in different kinds of spaces was interesting. In New York State you could see it from the bottom of the hill: you looked up and there was this kind of monument. It simply didn't work like that, that was not how it was meant to be seen. In Rome you were pushed up close, you got a feel of bits of it at a time rather like watching a film in the cinema, going from room to room, glancing, seeing bits of it. That was much more the right way of coming to terms with the piece. Clearly you are not meant to stand far back from these sculptures of mine, they should be pushing on to you. That is why it is not monumental sculpture, but rather big intimate sculpture' (1994)

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Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, New York
5 May - 8 November 2006

A Life in Sculpture: The Kenwood Series

A series of 13 sculptures in wood, metal, stone and clay ends its three-city tour of the US at the Long Island City venue of Garth Clark Gallery, New York, which organised the whole tour. The series, which is named after Kenwood House in London, where it was first shown, explores many themes, but the main aura is one of domestic nostalgia rather than the epic themes Caro has pursued in his other clay series. It shifts the drama from the mythic and military to the seemingly mundane - chairs, tables, cabinets, pantries, doorways - overseen by the huge Witness, which joins the exhibition from IVAM, Valencia.

Caro has been working actively in clay, alone or in multi-media work, since his participation in Syracuse University's New Works in Clay project in 1974/5. The ceramic elements in the Kenwood Series were made by Hans Spinner in Grasse, France, who has also collaborated with Caro on the previous series The Trojan War (1996), The Last Judgement (2000) and The Barbarians (2000) as well as a series of small Books and numerous other works. The exhibition opened at Scripps College, Claremont, California in August  2005 and moved on to Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Arizona from November 2005 to March 2006.

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Royal Academy of Arts, London
12 June - 20 August 2006

The Summer Exhibition

Sir Anthony Caro, who was elected a Royal Academician in March 2004, is represented in this year's summer exhibition with a drawing and four sculptures: Iced Tea (1990), Polyphemus (2004), Table Piece Soprano (2004) and South Passage (2005). Last year, he showed Floor Piece C-63 (1976/77), Stand Fast (2000/03), Table Piece Fruits (2003/04), a charcoal drawing (Reclining Figure) and Table Piece ‘Mouchoir’ from the Cascades Series (1990), which he selected as his Diploma Work, the work which every newly elected Royal Academician is required to contribute to the Royal Academy Collection.

In the year of his election, Sir Anthony was represented with Emma Scribble (1977/79), Side Drums from the Concerto Series (2000), a pen and ink drawing (Seascape) and two charcoal drawings of Venice. He also exhibited in the Summer Exhibition in the two years preceding his election; in 2003 the Concerto Series work Tambourine (1999) and the large new work Susanna and the Elders (2001/03) and in 2002 Table Piece `Mint Queen' from the Cascades Series (1990) and another Concerto Series work, Flageolet (1999).
 

Grassy, Gran Via 1, Madrid
9 February - 31 March 2006

Expo de Joyas de Anthony Caro

Grassy de Madrid presents an exclusive collection of jewellery by the British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, who for the first and only time in his artistic career has decided to reduce the scale of his work to create a collection of unique pieces of jewellery.

The collection of 22 pieces was created at the initiative of Kosme de Baranano, former director of the IVAM in Valencia and a personal friend of the artist, with the collaboration of Patricia Reznak Grassy, who is responsible for producing the catalogue and mounting the exhibition.

The pendants, earrings, brooches and related jewellery sculptures were made of 18 carat gold in the workshop of the Madrid goldsmith Francisco Pacheco.

The exhibition will open in conjunction with Arco on 9 February and end on 10 March. It will be on display in the Rotonda at Grassy in Madrid, one of the oldest and most distinguished jewellers in the city.

IVAM (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern), Guillem de Castro, Valencia, Spain
2 June - 4 September 2005

First presentation of Anthony Caro's work by a Spanish museum

Continuing its series of exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary sculpture, the IVAM presents a show by Anthony Caro, reflecting the work he has produced since the late 60s, when he developed his series of Table Pieces, through to his most recent discoveries in galvanized steel, which will occupy Gallery 1 and the esplanade. The curator Josep Salvador has selected some thirty sculptures of all sizes and in a wide range of materials, including paper and pottery. The show is mounted in collaboration with the Tate Gallery in London and will include a number of works from the recent highly acclaimed Caro retrospective at Tate Britain.

Tate Britain, Millbank, London
26 January 2005 - 17 April 2005

Major Retrospective to mark Anthony Caro’s 80^th birthday

Anthony Caro is widely regarded as one of world’s greatest living sculptors.  In January 2005, Tate Britain will be mounting a major retrospective exhibition surveying fifty years of his work: from the early 1950s to the present day.  The show will present key pieces from the early 1960s (including the ground-breaking sculptures which established Caro’s reputation) in the context of recent works in which fresh lines of innovation and development are apparent.  Presented to celebrate his 80^th birthday, the exhibition will be a landmark in documenting the achievement of this senior, internationally renowned figure.

Midday (1960)

Although Caro is known principally for his abstract sculpture in steel, his oeuvre also encompasses a wide range of other methods and materials, exemplified by more recent works in bronze, ceramic, wood and paper.  Also, since the mid 1980s, his range of concerns and sources of inspiration have broadened significantly.  A vital aspect of this has been his ongoing investigation of the dialogue between sculpture and architectural forms, notably in his ‘sculpitecture’ (sculpture that the viewer enters and explores internally) and large-scale works that allude to the language of classical architecture.  At the same time, such developments have been accompanied by a more specific engagement with the art of the past.  In his so-called ‘source’ sculpture, a primary consideration has been forging a response to earlier works of art by such masters as Rubens, Manet and Matisse. 

Night Movements (1987/1990)

 The exhibition will survey all these major developments.  In confirming Caro’s central achievement in steel, it will trace that main line of development through key works, but by including outstanding examples of his activity in other materials, the exhibition will also propose a wider and, to date, the most comprehensive assessment of the work of this pre-eminent artist.  The exhibition is curated by Paul Moorhouse, Tate Curator, and will comprise approximately 70 works, including important sculptures from public and private collections in the UK, the USA and Europe.  It is expected that the exhibition will tour in the USA and Europe.  A detailed and fully illustrated catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/caro/

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Galerie Daniel Templon, Rue Beaubourg, Paris
5 March - 15 April 2005

Anthony Caro

To complement the Tate Britain retrospective, Galerie Daniel Templon is presenting an exhibition exploring various aspects of Anthony Caro's multi-faceted work: large rusted steel sculptures, painted metal structures and bronze table sculptures. The exhibition, which aims to give an impression of the immense diversity of Caro's work from the late 1970s until today, is organised around three large works: Emma Scribble (1977-79), Barcelona Close-Up (1987) and Legend (1994-2001), to illustrate the concept of 'sculpitecture'.

In the smaller exhibition space, smaller-scale bronze table sculptures are displayed. A selection of works made between 1979 and 2003 shows the multiplicity of shapes and extremely diverse use of bronze, the traditional material for sculpture, achieved by Caro.

This is the first Caro exhibition in France since 1996, when Promenade was shown in the Tuileries during the exhibition Un siècle de sculpture anglaise at the Jeu de Paume. Later this year, Caro has been invited by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to present a work in dialogue with a work or works in the museum's permanent collection.

Anthony Caro at 80

On 8 March 2004, Sir Anthony Caro celebrated his 80th birthday. He is as active as ever and many brand-new works were included in the many exhibitions planned to mark the occasion.

First off the block was Artemis Greenberg van Doren Gallery in New York, which opened an exhibition of Caro works in December 2003. In January, Seoul Museum of Art showed the Barbarians and other works, and Garth Clark Gallery in New York also had an exhibition of ceramic work. In April followed an exhibition at Galerie Josine Bokhoven in Amsterdam and in May a major retrospective at Museum Würth in Germany. A new cycle of works was shown at Kenwood House in Hampstead in July and in October C Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore showed other recent work in October. In addition, Caro works were shown in group shows and at art fairs all over the world throughout the year, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford joined in the celebrations by installing Toronto Flats in the Museum forecourt, and the birthday was also marked with several new books, articles, radio and television features. See the Archive section for further details of many of these events.

The Tate Gallery honoured the artist with a birthday display of Sculpture Seven on the lawn outside Tate Britain, to be followed by a major retrospective in January 2005. This will be complemented with a retrospective of painted sculpture at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York

Exhibition

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Madison Avenue, New York
6 January 2005 - 26 February 2005

Anthony Caro: Painted Sculpture

Aroma (1966)

Solo (2003/2004)

In celebration of Anthony Caro's career retrospective at Tate Britain, Mitchell-Innes & Nash present their second solo exhibition for the artist. It will feature a selection of the artist's first painted sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s as well as some of the most recent pieces, galvanized assemblages which are being exhibited here for the first time.

The large-scale abstract works from the period when Caro first came to international recognition were revolutionary in being the first free-standing sculptures to be set directly on the ground, in the spectator's own space. The two groups of works are both characterised by the use of found objects, which are unified through the use of paint in the early works, galvanisation in the later ones. 

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Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford
From 29 August 2004

Toronto Flats (1974)

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Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford
From 29 August 2004

Toronto Flats (1974)

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Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
22 May - 3 October 2004

The Thinker (1942)	Duccio Variations No. 5 (2000)

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Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, London
1 - 25 July 2004

Witness (2003/2004)

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Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, New York
24 January - 6 March 2004

Posed (2003)

Anthony Caro is no stranger to the figure, even though he is best known for his abstract metal sculpture. His conversion to abstraction took place after a visit to the US in 1959, but before that he had worked figuratively and was the assistant to Henry Moore. Caro is no newcomer to ceramics. He was one of the artists participating in the New Works in Clay project at Syracuse University's Continental Can Company in 1975 and since then clay has played an important role in several series of mixed media works (including metal and wood): The Trojan War, The Last Judgement and The Barbarians. In these series, Caro worked with ceramist Hans Spinner in Grasse in southern France, using heavily grogged clay that allowed him to work in solid form. In Pot Ladies, Caro returns both to the figure and to all-clay works. The exhibition includes a suite of 14 figures, called Pot Ladies because they are cut, altered and reassembled from pots thrown by Paul Chaleff. The wood firing provides a rich surface, but it is not painterly; rather the fierceness of the contact with the flame, a generous ash deposit and flashing give a feeling of a primordial artefact. In their directness and plump sensuality they hark back to the Venus of Willendorf, the first known fired ceramic object, made 30,000 years ago. Caro's Pot Ladies add richly to this enduring tradition of the ceramic figure.

Caro’s masterpiece of the 1990s, The Last Judgement, first shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale, will be exhibited at the same time in a new exhibition space created by the Fundacio Caixa Catalunya adjacent to La Pedrera. Thus visitors to the city at this time will be able to see the full range of Caro’s sculptural development at these two venues.