From September 14 to January 5, 2014, the museum of modern art Saint Etienne Métropole is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the artist Tony Cragg. The British-born sculptor embraces the movement of the Art Nouvelle. The sculpture as a study of nature and the material world is the main engine of the artistic genius of Tony Cragg.
The forms and structures go
beyond the geometric rules to give rise to surprising new organic forms.
The
perceptual ambiguity is characteristic of materials such as of forms,
we can not know in what universe belong these achievements. The worlds
of plants, animals, marine are evoked but without allowing a certain
attribution to specific categories.
Cragg's works derive from the rare use of natural materials such as
stone, and a larger use of man-made materials, such as plastic or metal.
In these works, the objects take on a new meaning, granted things
become amazing.
Every work can be interpreted as a diagram of forces
that seem stolen from the principles of natural development. We would
expect to see increased or changed with the passing of days.
For the artist is unity, the cell to give the overall shape, despite the
opinion that can't stop at mere interlocking of base unit, you have to
find a way out of the relationship between the unit and all, to find
energy that go further.
The show at the saint Etienne Métropole proposes a particular point of view on the work of Tony Cragg offering a special collection of works all united by the theme of the circular motion. The visitor is invited to participate in the rotational movement which the artist gives shape through the workmanship of materials and elements that are approaching and separating, composing and decomposing the sculptures.
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