ANTHONY CARO: UPRIGHT SCULPTURES

Up North (2009)

Three galleries in the UK, France and the US show different selections from 43 new works completed by Anthony Caro over the last 18 months. All 43 works are reproduced in the accompanying hardback book, which also includes an interview with Tim Marlow. Photos John Riddy, ISBN 1-904621-38-4

The exhibitions are kicked off by Annely Juda Fine Art, showing its selection over two floors, to coincide with a major International Sculpture Conference in London, presented in collaboration with the University of the Arts, which will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century.

Although now in his 80s, Anthony Caro is more productive than ever. These works, in a wide range of materials, are testimony to his incredible spirit and continual originality.

Press release

NEW FIVE-VOLUME BOXED SET OF BOOKS

Since the mid-1950s when he first announced himself as a young sculptor to be reckoned with, Anthony Caro has explored a vast range of sculptural possibilities, testing limits and exploring new ideas about the nature of the art form. The Caro pendulum has swung between extremes of linearity and robustness, abstractness and allusion. He has countered his mastery of line and transparency with investigations of our responses to mass and perception of interior and exterior, even experimenting with literally enterable sculptures. He has made rigorously abstract constructions, intimate table-based pieces, monumental constructions like metaphorical architecture, complex multi-part cycles of narrative works and much more. Yet, notwithstanding the range and variety of his work, there are also common threads that run through it all, from the beginning of his career to the present.

The five volumes in this set, each by a different critic, examine the various aspects of Caro’s evolution individually, tracing the permutations of different themes – narrative, volume and mass, line and openness – throughout his work, over time. Each volume is independent and explores different territory, but cumulatively, by tracing these dominant themes, they provide new insight into his achievement. Published by Lund Humphries, April 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84822-057-7. Series editor Karen Wilkin. Each volume hardback, 280 x 240mm. Price £120, website price on www.ashgate.com £108. The volumes are also available individually, price £30, website price at www.ashgate.com £27.

Mary Reid: Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space

Karen Wilkin: Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior

Julius Bryant: Figurative and Narrative Sculpture

H F Westley Smith: Anthony Caro: Small Sculptures

Paul Moorhouse: Anthony Caro: Presence