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20/6/2012

Tony Cragg and David Brooks

Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester

Cass Sculpture Foundation is delighted to announce the celebration of its 20th anniversary with the launch of two new exhibition grounds, the Coastal Field and the Deer Hut Field. These fields have been cleared to host year- long curated exhibitions, which will run alongside the Foundation’s existing programme of exhibiting newly commissioned sculpture.

The fields will be inaugurated with a presentation of sculptures by the British artist Tony Cragg and an exhibition of new work by emerging American artist David Brooks. These mark the Foundation’s commitment to supporting emerging artists while also exhibiting more established masters of sculpture. Wuppertal-based Tony Cragg – one of the world’s most influential sculptors and Turner Prize winner in 1988 – employs the traditional materials of bronze, stone and steel, with his sculptures taking the form of smooth natural shapes or twisting towers of layered matter. At Cass Sculpture Foundation, he will present two large-scale outdoor fiberglass sculptures on the Coastal Field: Luke (2008) and Current Version (2010) from his Rational Beings series, which will be placed directly on the grass, evoke standing figures spinning on their axes with profiles that materialise and disappear.

New York-based artist David Brooks is best known for his work which considers the relationship between the individual and the manmade and natural environments. Through his immersive sculptural installations he explores perceptions of nature. At Cass Sculpture Foundation, Brooks will be presenting his newly commissioned sprawling sculpture Picnic Grove, a work built out of custom- made outdoor wooden furniture and spread over the entire 18,000m2 of the Deer Hut Field. The dozens of picnic tables and garden chairs are constructed in an interlocking manner, with trees heedlessly growing through the furniture like opportunistic weeds. As the picnic tables traverse the field and impose themselves on the landscape, the trees perforate the structures like a verdant grove, creating ambiguity as to which is dominant. While visitors are encouraged to utilise the installation for communal enjoyment, they will also find themselves negotiating the playful interruptions created by the erratic placement of the trees, fostering a similar sense of ambiguity as to who is imposing on whom. “The curated fields programme at the Foundation introduces a new, focused way of working with emerging and established artists to present considered exhibitions of their work, whether several works or more ambitious pieces than we may normally commission.”
Claire Shea, Director, Cass Sculpture Foundation

Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. He studied art at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wimbledon School of Art and he completed his studies at the Royal College of Art. In 1977, Cragg moved to Wuppertal, Germany where he continues to live and work. In addition to exhibiting his work internationally, Cragg is the Director of the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf and he also founded and operates a sculpture park in Wuppertal. Tony Cragg’s forthcoming shows include two major solo shows at the MoCA (Chengdu) and the Himalayas Art Museum (Shanghai). Cass Sculpture Foundation will present Tony Cragg’s work from September to November 2012 at Exhibition Road as part of the London 2012 Festival.

David Brooks was born in 1975 in Brazil, Indiana, USA. He studied art at the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and The Cooper Union, School of Art, New York and completed his studies at Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York. Brooks presented his work Preserved Forest, 2010, in MoMA PS1’s 2010 Greater New York show. In 2011, David Brooks showed his critically acclaimed Desert Rooftops, in the Last Lot in Times Square. Brooks’s forthcoming shows include solo shows at the American Contemporary (New York) and the Galerie für Landschaftskunst (Hamburg). Brooks lives and works in New York City.

Cass Sculpture Foundation is a charitable foundation established in 1992 by Wilfred and Jeannette Cass, dedicated to commissioning new sculpture from emerging and established artists. The Foundation’s 26 acre grounds are home to an ever-changing display of 80 monumental sculptures, all of which are for sale with the proceeds shared evenly between the artists and the foundation to invest in new commissions. By combining the best of philanthropic and commercial commissioning models, Cass Sculpture Foundation is able to continually commission and show new sculpture; to date the Foundation has produced over 400 sculptural works.

Highlights new commissions 2011-2012:
Awst & Walther, I Miss You, 2011, Edition 1 of 3, Polystyrene and Jesmonite, 355 x 156 x 250
Alex Hoda, Whirlwind, 2011, Edition 1 of 3, Polystyrene, Zinc, Steel, Copper, Bronze, 225 x 100 x 100 approx
Rodney Bender, The Return, 2012, Stainless Steel, Glass and Nitronic Rod, 400 x 120 x 120
Viktor Timofeev, X, 2012, 300 x 300 x 300, Corten Steel and Stainless Steel
Phillip King, Darwin, 2012, Edition 1 of 3, Varnished Stainless Steel, 280 x 280 x 280

Image: Tony Cragg, Luke, 2008. Fiberglass, 360x192x180 cm © Tony Cragg studio

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Cass Sculpture Foundation
Goodwood, Chichester - West Sussex, PO18 0QP
Tuesday - Sunday (closed Mondays) 10.30am to 4.30pm
Admission
£10 per person.
Children under 12 are half price
Children under 5 visit free
Dogs are not allowed on the grounds

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