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NEW WORKS BY BRITAIN’S GREATEST LIVING SCULPTOR An exhibition of new works by Britain's leading sculptor, Anthony Caro, will go on show in the Orangery at Kenwood from 1 - 25 July 2004, to mark the artist's 80th birthday. Anthony Caro lives close to Kenwood and the exhibition will be his fourth at the Robert Adam villa overlooking Hampstead Heath. It will be his only show in Britain this year; other exhibitions will be held in America, Germany, the Netherlands and Korea. The sixteen new sculptures in the exhibition were begun in Provence last year and include a large-scale terracotta figure in relief and a group of freestanding sculptures which recall board games, books on desks, an artist's still-life, a factory turn-table, a lectern. One of the highlights of the show will be a monumental sculpture in stone, the artist's first in a career spanning nearly sixty years. Anthony Caro has played a pivotal role in the history of twentieth century sculpture. Born in 1924, he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore in1951-3. His teaching at St Martin's School of Art inspired a whole generation of younger British sculptors including Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, Bruce McLean and Gilbert and George. His "breakthrough' works of the early sixties took sculptures off their pedestals and placed them directly in the viewer's space. His radical approach freed up the subject matter of sculpture and has been an example to many other European and American artists. The sculptor's 80th birthday will also be marked by a major retrospective at Tate Britain opening in January next year, which will tour to other venues in Europe. The Kenwood exhibition is accompanied by a new book on the sculptor Exhibition
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