After the first encounter when Martin Kunz discovered on a scouting tour for young British Sculptors in 1981 Richard Deacon in London before he had any any international , not even national exposure. Only exhibited at alternative and college art spaces. He spontaneously invited the artist then, then to be part of a very selective group show presenting the 5 artists ”BRITISH SCULPTURE NOW,
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n Cox, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon , Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, all names the British Council considered then barely known and questionable to support an international show, but in the end gave support as the exhibition was presented in contexts of the prestigious International Festival of Music in the same building at the time called Kunst-und Kongresshaus Luzern (See LINK)
After Deacon's participation in Lucerne 1982 was followed by his progressively increasing oeuvre and it's spacial and material development, his continuous creative evolvement promoted soon the idea of a larger monographic exhibition which became more challenging due to the increasing size of his work. To make it happen with the limited budget of Lucerne, he had to look for partners Kunz found first in the person of Alexander van Grevenstein and later Maria Corral. A very collegial and constructive coproduction became reality for a European wide tour. Kunz managed also to acquire at the end of this for the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne a major sculpture and prints the artists donated other prints and work on paper. (LINK> Museum Collection Lucerne)
