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Retrospective of 40 Years of Richard Deacon's Work Opens at the Sprengel Museum |
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Two gallery assitants walk past the works of British artist Richard Deacon are to be seen at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover,Germany, 21 January 2011. The exhibition 'Richard Deacon. The Missing Part' is the artist's first retrospective after 40 years of creativity Deacon as seen as one of the leading figures of contemporary sculpture. EPA/PETER STEFFEN.
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HANOVER.- Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is internationally recognized as one of contemporary sculptures most influential figures. He quickly emerged as an exceptional fabricator of forms, the creator of an artistic universe fluidly embracing the living.
The Missing Part exhibition, designed in close collaboration with the artist, is a retrospective of 40 years of his work shown here for the first time as an assemblage of approximately forty sculptures and some 120 drawings, engravings and photographs.
Appearing on the English scene as a promising young sculptor in the early 1980s, Richard Deacon quickly made a name for himself as a artist deeply committed to material. He works with ceramics, metal, wood, resin, paper, glass, plastic, leather and cloth and is a self-proclaimed fabricator. His sculptures never seek to hide technical operations behind them, including assemblage, riveting, torsion, stretching, folding or strapping
The creator of approximately thirty monumental-sized sculptures designed for urban or natural settings, Richard Deacon has also produced a multitude of medium-sized sculptures, works ranging from the human bodys scale to workshop height and smaller formats. His pieces are a direct invitation into the physical experience of sculpted object and a sensitive approach to material, their modes of fabrication and setting.
The sculptures forms suggest a biomorphic universe laden with sensuality, close to that of Arps. While oftentimes resonating with the register of organic life, they are also marked by a rigor that is intensely minimalist and materialist. The mobility and fluidity of Deacons forms envelop the spectator in a choreography of instability where enigma and metamorphoses, echoed by poetic titles, give image to the worlds complexity and relativity to our perceptions and knowledge. According to the artist Not knowing is a good state of art.
The exhibition brings together nearly forty sculptures, the product of 40 years of work of an amazing continuity. This is also a first-time presentation of his student work completed at Saint Martins College of Art and the Royal College of Art, sculptures, drawings, photographs and texts documenting performances; a tribute to the conceptual anchoring inside Deacons work and his attention to the creative process. Finally we see the important role drawing plays in Deacons creation, always central to the artists sculptural research, as for his photography.
This exhibition is a co-production with the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art of the city of Strasbourg
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