UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: TONY CRAGG

until Saturday March 10 2012
Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Marian Goodman Gallery
T : + (1) 212-977-7160
24 West 57th Street
10019 New York
United States

goodman@mariangoodman.com
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Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new sculpture by Tony Cragg, featuring recent sculptures in bronze, corten steel, wood, cast iron, and stone. Concurrently, and accompanying the gallery presentation, a group of large scale works will be exhibited at The Sculpture Garden, NY.

The current exhibition presents recent innovations and diversifications of this visual morphology. One of the legacies of Early Forms, how one vessel can transform into another and in its alteration reveal its interior space, is brought to life in Cubic Early Form, 2010 and Turning Point, 2011, as is the intricate choreography of interlocked forms and negative/positive space in Lost in Thought, or the complex shapes cut from wood in Chip, 2011. The motif of sequentially mutating silhouettes that have appeared in recent works are present in Hollow Head, 2008, alongside the complex elliptical and axial stacked constructions that began with Rational Beings. Here they extend as if to incorporate speed and rhythmic, elastic motion in Red Figure, 2009 and Runner, 2011; are layered and heaped in Accurate Figure, 2011 and Thumbs Up, 2011; or coalesce into families of striking multiple columnar forms as in Group, 2011 and Versus, 2011.