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Lisson Gallery London, British and International Contemporary Art Lisson Gallery specialises in conceptual minimal art of the 60's and 70's internationally, British and European sculpture of the 80's and new British and international artists of the 90's. .Lisson Gallery London, British and International Contemporary Art Lisson Gallery specialises in conceptual minimal art of the 60's and 70's internationally, British and European sculpture of the 80's and new British and international artists of the 90's. .. |
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. They said it couldn't be done, that it was doomed from the start, that despite the English love of landscape, creating a sculpture park in an English forest was simply. The skeptics have now fallen silent, as Sculpture at Goodwood -- the ground-breaking outdoor gallery started by Wilfred and Jeannette Cass at Hat Hill Copse on the Goodwood estate in West Sussex -- has enabled the production of more large-scale sculptures by top British artists than any other gallery or arts organization. Sculpture at Goodwood places over 40 works within a 20-acre forest each year, and sells about half of them, thanks to a dynamic marketing strategy and its cutting-edge website. Andrew Sabin's Land Bin, currently on view, functions as an apt visual metaphor for the Goodwood sculpture project. |
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Might it therefore be possible to find here a metaphor for evolution in several ways. . Trilobites BRITISH CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE Tony Cragg Trilobites 1989 bronze, H 200 cm Private loan 'Sometimes pictures are puzzled together. ' Tony Cragg Artforum March 1988 In Trilobites Tony Cragg has taken two motifs, that of the three-lobed body of a marine fossil of Palaeozoic times and a vessel from the laboratory. Neither reference is strange in his work, but the unseen notions that pull this piece together and make it appear as it does are many and varied. |
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Later pieces, sometimes derived from found materials, demonstrated a shift of interest to surface quality and how that could be manipulated, and a play with unlikely juxtapositions of materials. . Tony Cragg BRITISH CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE Tony Cragg Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1939. He worked as a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research Association (1966-68) before attending Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham, and the Royal College of Art, London (1973-77). Tony Cragg has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany, since 1977. |
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