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Richard Deacon – Objekte und Plastiker 1985/88
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, Stephen 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)
Felix Droese: übereinander, gegeneinander, durcheinander und zugleich
Felix Droese’s sensational and much discussed appearance at Documenta in 1982, and again at the German pavilion of the 1984 Venice Biennale, was due not only to the monumentality of his work, but also to its radical and subversive content at political as well as at ethical and religious levels. This catalogue was published in 1986 by Kunstmuseum Luzern (also on behalf of Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart) and documents these institutions’ joint presentation of the artist’s first retrospective. Droese’s work is here presented in its entirety: drawings, sculptures and paintings. In 1993, at his museum of contemporary art—the New York Kunsthalle— Martin Kunz was again to present an important retrospective of Felix Droese’s work (an exhibition which was then to travel to the IMF in Washington, D. C.) accompanied by the publication of a catalogue that completed and enriched his personal interest in the artist.
New Artists added
Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg (British, born 1949) Sculptor Tony Cragg (British, b.1949) is best known for his use of diverse materials, ranging from found objects to the more traditional bronze, wood, and marble. Cragg was born in Liverpool, and spent two years working as a lab technician before attending the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. Cragg moved to Wuppertal in 1977, and has resided in Germany ever since. In his early work, he incorporated found materials, such as pieces of plastic, detritus from construction sites, and household wares, into his sculptures, creating flat mosaics and three-dimensional works with serrated and stacked elements. In more recent works, Cragg has used traditional materials, such as bronze and wood, producing tall, sleek works with a rippled texture, conveying motion and animation. Cragg has taught at the School of Art in Düsseldorf since 1978, and has held professorships at several other arts institutions. He has been honored with the Turner Prize, an Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, and has exhibited work at the Venice Biennale. Cragg currently divides his time between Wuppertal and Düsseldorf, and also has a studio on the island of Tjörn, off the coast of Sweden.