Tony Cragg - Early Works
14th October 2011 - 18th March 2012
Foto: Süleyman Kayaalp
In the 1970’s Tony Cragg began to work with materials, which had either been manufactured or processed by man. As objects ‘which complement the physical, intellectual and emotional life of mankind’, they can be associated with everyday purposes, that is to say they still convey their objective meaning despite the artist having disassociated them from their context. Nevertheless, as liberated forms they are suited to formulating new statements thus creating minimalistically exact fundamental structures, for instance if they are stacked or layered. The figurative murals and installations made of plastic flotsam and jetsam also deal with the relationship between people and things and continue to characterize contemporary consumption practices with the context of their imagery
