NEW THREE-VOLUME SET OF BOOKS
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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 three 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,
October 2009. Each volume hardback, 280x240mm, 152 pages, incl. 80 colour,
10 b&w illustrations - £30 or £60 for the set
Mary Reid:
Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space
Karen Wilkin:
Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior
Julius Bryant:
Figurative and Narrative Sculpture
ANTHONY CARO AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION241st Summer ExhibitionRoyal Academy of Arts, Picadilly, London 8 June 2009 - 16 August 2009
For the eighth year running, Sir Anthony Caro is represented in the Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition. This year he is showing the large new metal
sculpture Erl King (2009), which is on display in Gallery VIII,
opposite a luminous painting, Days End, by his wife Sheila Girling.
Charcoal figure drawings in Gallery I represent the opposite pole of his
wide-ranging oeuvre. Another aspect was featured last year when the large
architectural work Promenade (1996) on display in the courtyard was
complemented by a large-scale model of the Chapel of Light which he
has created for the church of St Jean Baptiste in Bourbourg in Northern
France and two drawings.
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New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
Following the very successful joint exhibition of works by Anthony Caro and his painter-wife Sheila Girling in 2007, Roche Court has been chosen for the display of the important work Millbank Steps, made of corteen steel. The sculpture was commissioned especially for the major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2005 to celebrate Caro's 80th birthday, when it was sited in the Duveen Galleries. A further development of a theme explored in Halifax Steps and Goodwood Steps, it is one of Caro's most ambitious works, once again exploring the relationship between sculpture and architecture. The internal spaces of the structure will encourage visitors to interact with the sculpture and it will look magnificent in the landscape. The sculpture is for sale and the artist hopes it will eventually be sited in a major architectural project somewhere in the world. Alongside Millbank Steps, a number of works from the Flats series (1974) shown last year remain on show at Roche Court. |