Richard Deacon: Seven Works

May 15, 2008 - August 31, 2008

Richard Deacon

Madison Square Park

1 W 23rd St

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon
Renowned British artist Richard Deacon will show seven new large ceramic pieces on the park lawns, including four new geometric works.

Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949. During his childhood, his family moved several times including a period between 1955 and 1958 when they lived in Sri Lanka. Between 1969 and 1972 he concentrated on performance-based work, for example, Stuff Box Object 1971-72, an experimental piece that involved Deacon climbing into a box, bolting himself inside, experiencing the interior space, climbing out and then working with plaster on the exterior of the box. Deacon's writings have matured alongside his work and now form an integral part of his practice. 1978-79 was a decisive period for Deacon. His son Alexis was born and he visited the United States for a year. Here he produced a series of drawings called It's Orpheus When There's Singing, based on his readings of Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. In 1982 he started work on the sculptural series Art for Other People. It was at this time that Deacon's work began to gain national and international recognition and since then has been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunstverein, Hanover; and MOCA/CT, Los Angeles. In addition to gallery-based exhibitions, he has worked on several public art commissions notably Between The Eyes for the Yonge Square International Plaza in Toronto, Let's Not Be Stupid at the University of Warwick and Building from The Inside, Voltaplatz, Krefeld. He has undertaken professorships at the London Institute, the Hohschule fur Angewande Kunst, Vienna, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris.

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GalleryMadison Square Park
Address1 W 23rd St
New York (Chelsea)
NY, 10010
United States
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