Caro at Correr Museum
From 31 Maggio 2013 to 27 Ottobre 2013
Venice
Place: Museo Correr
Address: San Marco 52
Times: 10am - 7pm (tickets 10am - 6pm)
Responsibles: Daniela Ferretti
Organizers:
- British Council
Ticket price: full price € 16, reduced price €8
Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 42730892
E-Mail info: info@fmcvenezia.it
Official site: http://correr.visitmuve.it
The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will host the first major retrospective devoted to one of the greatest Italian sculptors living: Sir Anthony Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924).
The versatile British artist revolutionizes dramatically since the sixties his art. After a debut purely figurative, under the influence of his master Henry Moore, in fact moves away from tradition to create sculptural assemblages revolutionaries, welded and bolted, brightly painted and placed on the floor, in the space of the viewer. They are abstract works, but full of great content. A fascinating new plastic language which consecrates Caro as a pivotal figure in the development of twentieth-century sculpture next to David Smith, Mark Di Suvero, Richard Serra.
His favorite material is steel, but the artist does not give up experimenting with various elements such as bronze, wood, paper and lead. The assemblies of two-dimensional metallic elements become the emblem of the new British sculpture.
Symbol of the new and modernity in sculpture, Anthony Caro is present in all the most important international events: remember the first solo exhibition in New York in 1964 by André Emmerich, participation as the only sculptor British pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1966, the retrospective at the MoMA in New York in '75, the exhibition of 84 at the Serpentine Gallery in London and, again, collaboration with the architect Norman Foster for the "Millennium Bridge" in London. The Tate Modern Art in London in 2004, he celebrated his eighty years, and now will be Venice to celebrate the charismatic personality of Anthony Caro.
The versatile British artist revolutionizes dramatically since the sixties his art. After a debut purely figurative, under the influence of his master Henry Moore, in fact moves away from tradition to create sculptural assemblages revolutionaries, welded and bolted, brightly painted and placed on the floor, in the space of the viewer. They are abstract works, but full of great content. A fascinating new plastic language which consecrates Caro as a pivotal figure in the development of twentieth-century sculpture next to David Smith, Mark Di Suvero, Richard Serra.
His favorite material is steel, but the artist does not give up experimenting with various elements such as bronze, wood, paper and lead. The assemblies of two-dimensional metallic elements become the emblem of the new British sculpture.
Symbol of the new and modernity in sculpture, Anthony Caro is present in all the most important international events: remember the first solo exhibition in New York in 1964 by André Emmerich, participation as the only sculptor British pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1966, the retrospective at the MoMA in New York in '75, the exhibition of 84 at the Serpentine Gallery in London and, again, collaboration with the architect Norman Foster for the "Millennium Bridge" in London. The Tate Modern Art in London in 2004, he celebrated his eighty years, and now will be Venice to celebrate the charismatic personality of Anthony Caro.
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