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    TONY CRAGG AT THADDEUS ROPAC PARIS MARAIS

    Friday, August 2nd, 2024

    An exhibition of new sculpture by Tony Cragg runs at Thaddeus Ropac in Paris Marais from September 7 to October 10. Cragg’s abstract sculptures manifest entirely unprecedented forms that nevertheless spark a sense of recognition as they gesture to the world around us. Focusing on his most recent bodies of work, this exhibition offers a view into the breadth of Tony Cragg’s latest formal developments, which are defined by the British artist’s continual investigation into the possibilities of a wide range of materials and his exploration of both the natural and the man-made worlds.

    TONY CRAGG AT GALERIE THADDEUS ROPAC, PARIS

    Monday, August 17th, 2020

    British born German based Tony Cragg is regarded as one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary sculptors.  A dozen of his works made between 2018 and this year in bronze, wood and steel, will be shown at a Galerie Thaddeus Ropac exhibition in Paris from September 11 to October 16. An online viewing experience of the show will launch simultaneously at www.ropac.net. These new works connote the movement, change and transience of elements caught in the process of transformation.  Overlapping layered structures and convoluted forms give rise to figurative landscapes. The implied motion of the forms is reminiscent of Italian Futurist speed fanatics like Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) and Giacomo Balla (1871-1958). A Turner Prize winner (in 1988) Cragg considers himself a radical materialist, constantly seeking to explore and expand the possibilities of new materials. In 2007 he received the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture from Japan and was made a knight in 2016. 

    Tony Cragg – Skull, a 2018 sculpture in wood. Photo: Michael Richter