Flat 27
Flat 27
Flat 27
Flat 27

Richard Deacon

Flat 27, 201634.5 x 52.3 x 44cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
glazed refractory concreteChisenhale Gallery
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a unique, organic-shaped container adorned with a vibrant floral pattern. The composition showcases a harmonious blend of bold, contrasting colors, including deep greens, vibrant pinks, and delicate white accents. The irregular, rounded shape of the container creates a sense of playfulness and fluidity, while the intricate, hand-painted floral motifs suggest a connection to nature and the artist's attention to detail. The overall aesthetic invites the viewer to consider the interplay between form, function, and the decorative elements, perhaps hinting at themes of transformation, growth, or the cyclical nature of life. ...

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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 DeaconFlat 28, 2016Price on Request
Flat 27
Richard DeaconFlat 27, 2016Price on Request
Cut & Fold #1
Richard DeaconCut & Fold #1, 2022Price on Request
Untitled  photographed by David Ward (Chisenhale Gallery 29 July 1986)
Richard DeaconUntitled photographed by David Ward (Chisenhale Gallery 29 July 1986), 1981Price on Request
Chisenhale Gallery
Gallery
Chisenhale Gallery
London