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Early life and training Tony Cragg's early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials.From the mid-1970s through to the early 1980s he presented assemblages in primary structures (as in his first mature piece, the 1975 Stack) as well as in colourful, representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces (as in Red Indian of 1982-3). Cragg constructed these early works by systematically arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images. Career Tony Cragg's early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials. From the mid-1970s through to the early 1980s he presented assemblages in primary structures (as in his first mature piece, the 1975 Stack)as well as in colourful, representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces (as in Red Indian of 1982-3).Cragg constructed these early works by systematically arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images. Britain Seen from the North (1981) is a signature early work, made of multi-coloured scraps of various materials assembled in relief on the wall. The piece depicts the outline of the island of Great Britain, orientated sideways so that Northern Britain is positioned to the left. The island is scrutinized by a figure, representing Cragg himself, who looks at his native country from the position of an outsider. Britain Seen from the North (1981) is often interpreted as commenting on the social and economic difficulties that Britain was facing under ‘Thatcherism’, which had particular effect in the north.This work was first exhibited in the large upstairs space at the Whitechapel Art gallery in London in 1981 and is now in the Tate collection.
After moving to Germany in the (1981); Institute of Contemporary late 1977 Cragg had several solo Art, London (1982); Documenta 7, exhibitions including Lisson Gallery, Kassel (1982) and the Hayward and London (1979); Lützozstr. Situation, Serpentine Galleries, London Berlin (1979) and Künstlerhaus (1983). Since then Cragg has Weidenallee, Hamburg (1979).He exhibited extensively at many of also exhibited in seminal group world's most important art shows including the Silver Jubilee institutions. By the end of the Sculpture Show, Battersea Park, decade Cragg received the Turner London (1977); Europa-Kunst der Price at the Tate Gallery in London 80er Jahre, Stuttgart (1979); Kunst (1988), represented Britain at the in Europa na '68, Museum van 42. Venice Biennale (1988) and was Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent (1980) appointed Professor at the and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1988- L'art degli anni Settanta/Aperto 2001). '80, Venice Biennale (1980). Throughout the 1990s Cragg In the early-1980s Cragg gradually continued to develop two larger moved away from installation art groups of work that have sustained and began to examine more his production up to the present: closely the individual objects used the Early Forms and the Rational as parts of his larger constellations. Beings. The Early Forms series This was the beginning of his investigate the possibilities of engagement and experimentation manipulating everyday, familiar with the properties and containers and the ways in which possibilities of a wide range of they can morph into and around more permanent materials in the one another in space.These form of wood, plaster, stone, sculptures derive their profiles and fiberglass, Kevlar, stainless steel, contours from simple, tick-walled cast iron and bronze.In the early vessels– such as chemistry vessels, 1980s Cragg exhibited at Arnolfini plastic bottles and mortars. The Gallery, Bristol (1980);Whitechapel surfaces of these initial objects are Art Gallery, London (1980); extended and contorted until new, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
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