Anthony Caro, Garland (1970).
Museo Correr
Caro al Museo Correr
From June 1st to October 27th 2013
Museo Correr, Venice
The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924).
The versatile British artist has radically “revolutionised” his art. After a strictly figurative beginning, under the influence of his teacher, Henry Moore, he drifted away from sculptural tradition to create revolutionary assemblages, welded and bolted together, painted in bright colours and positioned on the floor within the viewer’s space; these were abstract works but rich in ideal content. This new, fascinating sculptural language established him as a key figure in the development of 20th century sculpture alongside David Smith, Mark Di Suvero and Richard Serra.
His favourite material is steel, but Caro also experiments with many other materials, including bronze, wood, paper and lead. His assemblages of two-dimensional metal elements became the emblem of new British sculpture, a starting point and influence for all the later generations.
A symbol of all that is new and modern in sculpture, Anthony Caro is present in all the most important international events: it is worth recalling his first personal show at André Emmerich in New York in 1964, his participation, as the only sculptor, at the British pavilion of the 1966 edition of the Venice Biennale, the retrospective at the MoMA in New York in 1975, the 1984 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and, finally, his work with Normal Foster for the Millennium Bridge. In 2004, the Tate Modern in London celebrated his 80th birthday; now it will be Venice to celebrate the charismatic personality of Sir Anthony Caro.
Sir Anthony Caro (b1924) is one of the world’s greatest living sculptors.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ’s College, Cambridge, earning a degree in engineering. In 1946, after time in the Royal Navy, he studied sculpture at the Regent Street Polytechnic before pursuing further studies at the Royal Academy Schools from 1947 until 1952. In the 1950s, he moved to Much Hadham, Hertfordshire and worked as an assistant to Henry Moore.
He first achieved widespread recognition in the early 1960s. He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours. Such works caused a sensation, provoking a response from some critics that these constructions were not sculpture at all. He came to public attention with a pioneering solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963, which established his pivotal role in the development of twentieth century sculpture.
Caro’s teaching at St Martin’s School of Art in London (1953-1981) was highly influential. His questioning approach opened up new possibilities, both formally and with regard to subject matter. His innovations heralded a revolution in art. Within a short period, conventional ideas about materials, surface, scale, form and space were overturned by his radical reworking of all these elements.
Major exhibitions include retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Trajan Markets, Rome (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain, London (2005), and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Bourbourg. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997.
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Organized by British Council
Supported by Gagosian Gallery
Commissaries Gabriella Belli, Gary Tinterow
Layout by Daniela Ferretti
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Where: Museo Correr – Piazza San Marco, Venice
When: June 1st – October 27th 2013
Opening hours: 10 am – 7 pm (ticket office 10 am – 6 pm)
TICKETS
Entrance with museum ticket or with single ticket (only for the exhibition)
Single ticket (exhibition only): 8 euro
Museum ticket: a single ticket valid for all the St. Mark’s Square Museums: the Doge’s Palace, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. This ticket is valid for 3 months and grants one single admission to each museum.
Full price: 16,00 euro
Reduced: 8,00 euro
Children aged from 6 to 14; students* aged from 15 to 25; escorts (max. 2) for groups of children or students (min. 10); citizens over 65; staff* of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; holders of the “Rolling Venice Card”; F.A.I. members*
Free entrance: Venetian citizens and residents; I.C.O.M. members; children aged from 0 to 5; disabled people with helper; authorized guides*; interpreters accompanying groups; 1 free tickets every 15 tickets with prior bookings; MUVE Friend Card holders
Family Offer: 1 ticket full price, the others at reduced tariff for families of two adults and at least one child (aged 6 to 18)
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