A renowned British sculptor and the 1988 Turner Prize winner, Tony Cragg plays a leading role in the remarkable generation of sculptors that emerged in the late Seventies and he serves currently as the director of the respected Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. His first museum show in China has just opened last Friday at the art museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
The afternoon we met Tony Cragg in the third floor gallery at the art museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts to talk about his new show, he was pretty occupied with his preparations for this exhibition. He would not regard it as a retrospective exhibition to summarize his career since he is endowed with boundless energy to create new works. This major exhibition, part of the event UKNOW, offers the first full survey of Cragg’s work in China, which also has been exhibited in Scotland, Venice, Duisburg, Paris and Dallas. Featuring nearly 50 major sculptures, the show is focused on work from the past 15 years, with some earlier pieces.
Courtesy of Tony Cragg and the Art Museum of CAFA
Photo: Hu Zhiheng/CAFA ART INFO
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