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Richard Deacon, New Works Exhibition review of "one of Britain's most brilliant sculptors"

24 January 2024

Paris Marais

Né en 1949 au pays de Galles, Richard Deacon est, avec Tony Cragg (né lui aussi en 1949) et Anthony Caro (1924-2013), l’un des plus brillants sculpteurs britanniques. On le dit abstrait et l’on qualifie ses sculptures de baroques, tant celles-ci se distinguent par leur développement spatial vraiment spectaculaire, par la circonvolution et l’expansion de la matière. On le retrouve à l’étage de la galerie Ropac avec une modeste exposition : des œuvres en céramique émaillée et colorée, accompagnées de petites sculptures en acier.

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Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is, along with Tony Cragg (also born in 1949) and Anthony Caro (1924-2013), one of Britain's most brilliant sculptors. His work has been referred to as abstract and his sculptures as baroque, standing out with their truly spectacular spatial unfolding, as well as the swirling and expanding nature of the material. He is back on the upper floor of the Galerie Ropac with a modest exhibition of glazed and coloured ceramics, accompanied by small steel sculptures.