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CDAW 2005 Participant
Garth Clark Gallery

Sir Anthony Caro: The Kenwood Series
Long Island City: May 05 - August 11, 2006

Anthony Caro
Summit Games, 2003
Stoneware and steel
43.5 x 28 x 25.5

The Kenwood Series shows a reflective mood as the artist looks back on the interstices of life. Previously he had done vast sculptural epics, one after the other, The Trojan War, Last Judgment and The Barbarians. These were big mythic narratives. The Kenwood Series, however, is a group of housebroken sculpture, talking about games, chairs, pantries, tables and telling little stories. They embrace the everyday and, while not utilitarian in an obvious sense, play on that theme, which is something that is so innate to ceramics: its ability to explore function and purpose without becoming banal.

And so this body of work continues Caro's fictile fascination. Caro has been working actively in this medium, both alone and in multi-media work for just over thirty years now beginning with his participation in Syracuse University's New Works in Clay Project in 1974-75 that brought him along with other painters and sculptors to ceramics. The ceramic elements in Kenwood were made at the Studio of Hans Spinner in Grasse on the French Riviera. Spinner has made a life's work of partnering with artists who want to work in ceramics and aside from Caro; his group includes the late Eduardo Chillida, Antonio Tapies, James Brown and Pierre Alechinsky.

A hardcover book on The Kenwood Series, Anthony Caro: A Life in Sculpture by Julius Bryant, is available ($25.00 plus shipping and handling).

Garth Clark Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY
email: info@garthclark.com
web: www.garthclark.com

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