Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Tara Wray
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Richard Deacon
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Richard Deacon (b. 1949) has been a leading figure in British sculpture since the 1980s. He describes himself as a fabricator who constructs objects using manufacturing or building techniques, rather than as a sculptor who carves or models. In a career spanning more than four decades, Deacon has worked with a diverse range of materials including laminated wood, stainless steel, corrugated iron, polycarbonate, marble, clay, vinyl, foam and leather. Working on both domestic and monumental scales, he manipulates his materials to create structures that combine organic and biomorphic forms with elements of engineering.
Deacon's Untitled 1991 (1991), made of painted welded steel, consists of three vertical loops intersected and linked along their top and bottom horizontal axes. Using a technique called heat-line bending, Deacon transforms a flat plate of steel into a three-dimensional and organic form. The anthropomorphic shapes, resembling eyes, ears or open mouths, are joined together in a dynamic and airy structure that contradicts the rigidity and heaviness inherent to the material of steel. The welding lines are purposefully revealed to emphasize the work's structure and "fabricated" status. With its overlapping arcs and undulating curves, the sculpture presents complex shapes and intersections from every angle.
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