Tony CRAGG

Biography

Born in 1949 in Liverpool, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in the 1970s. In 1977, he relocated to Wuppertal, Germany, where he continues to live and work today (having also opened his own sculpture park, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden). In the 1980s, he garnered international attention as a representative artist of “New British Sculpture.” He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1988, and in the same year, won the Turner Prize, the most prestigious award for contemporary art in the UK. He has firmly established his reputation as a master of contemporary sculpture, receiving honors such as the Praemium Imperiale in 2007.

Artworks

• Early Found Object Works
  A series of works in which everyday items, such as plastic fragments, are sorted by color and arranged on walls or floors to create geometric shapes or specific images (such as a palette or a crescent moon).
• Organic Abstract Sculptures (Early Forms / Rational Beings, etc.)
  A series of large-scale, three-dimensional sculptures developed since the 1990s. By stacking layers of wood or bronze and introducing twists and spirals, these works feature complex curved surfaces and multi-perspective structures.

Secretions (Bermenia), 1999

Wooden Crystal, 2001

Declination, 2003

Public Collections

Tate, London
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan (among others)