Cut & Fold #1
Cut & Fold #1
Cut & Fold #1
Cut & Fold #1
Cut & Fold #1
Cut & Fold #1

Richard Deacon

Cut & Fold #1, 2022203 x 165 x 114cmSign in to view price
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MaterialGallery
stainless steelChisenhale Gallery
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This minimalist sculpture features a striking geometric composition with clean lines and contrasting colors. The work consists of a series of overlapping silver-toned frames surrounding a deep, vibrant purple panel. The angled, intersecting forms create a dynamic, angular structure that appears to float effortlessly, highlighting the artist's skillful manipulation of materials and space. The simplicity and precision of the design suggest a focus on exploring the relationship between form, volume, and negative space, characteristic of the artist's contemporary abstract style. This captivating piece invites the viewer to consider the interplay of light, shadow, and color within a carefully balanced, three-dimensional exploration. ...

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Artist
Richard Deacon
B.1949, British

Richard Deacon’s voluptuous abstract forms have placed him at the forefront of British sculpture since the 1980s and, hugely influential, his works are visible in major public commissions around the world. His voracious appetite for material has seen him move between laminated wood, stainless steel, corrugated iron, polycarbonate, marble, clay, vinyl, foam and leather. As he explains: “Changing materials from one work to the next is a way of beginning again each time (and thus of finishing what had gone before)”. Deacon describes himself as a ‘fabricator’, emphasising the construction behind the finished object – although many of the works are indeed cast, modelled or carved by hand – and accordingly the logic of the fabrication is often exposed: sinuous curved forms might be bound by glue oozing between layers of wood or have screws and rivets protruding from sheets of steel, wearing their hearts on their sleeves. Such transparency highlights the reactive nature of the process: it is part of a two-way conversation between artist and material that transforms the workaday into something metaphorical. The idea of ‘fabrication’ also denotes making something up, of fiction rather than truth, and this knack for wordplay surfaces in Deacon’s titles, which might establish juxtapositions or wreak new meaning from familiar sayings or clichés – see Let’s not be Stupid (1991), No Stone Unturned (1999), Water Under the Bridge (2008) or Shiver My Timbers (2016). ...

Richard Deacon: Artworks
Flat 28
Richard Deacon
Flat 28, 2016
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Flat 27
Richard Deacon
Flat 27, 2016
34.5 x 52.3 x 44cm
Cut & Fold #1
Richard Deacon
Cut & Fold #1, 2022
203 x 165 x 114cm
Untitled  photographed by David Ward (Chisenhale Gallery 29 July 1986)
Richard Deacon
Untitled photographed by David Ward (Chisenhale Gallery 29 July 1986), 1981
50.8 x 40.6cm
Chisenhale Gallery
Gallery
Chisenhale Gallery
London

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