Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro - Galerie Max Hetzler Selected Works

Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013) gained recognition in the 1960s for his brightly painted steel works, informed by the colour field trends of American art. Although renowned for these sculptures in steel, Caro produced works of equal importance in iron, aluminium, brass, bronze, wood and paper. Through a dynamic formal language, the artist’s work articulates a unique connection between asymmetry and balance, familiarity and otherness, often transforming architectural materiality into anatomical forms.

While nodding to the conventions of modernist sculpture, Caro’s work revived the otherwise traditional modes of presentation when he chose to display his often monumentally-sized works directly on the ground. Occupying a shared space and acknowledging their surroundings, the sculptures reveal the possibilities of a more intimate and meaningful spectatorship. Caro’s works appeal to the physical commonalities between the sculpture and the viewer, an artistic intervention that had a profound impact on the progression of twentieth-century sculpture. Over the course of six decades, Caro became internationally known as the preeminent British sculptor of his generation.

‘I never want people to handle my sculpture, to run their hands over surfaces. But I do want them to grasp it in a physical way, to relate to it with their bodies; that is one reason why the early works were so big. It is as if the eyes become a surrogate for the body. In one way or another physicality has to be a part of sculpture.’

A. Caro in conversation with K. Wilkin, ‘Openings’, in Caro, Munich: Prestel, 1991, p. 11

Image: First National, 1964, steel, painted green and yellow, 139.7 x 287 x 297 cm.; 55 x 113 x 116 7/8 in., Photo: Mike Bruce, © Barford Sculptures Ltd. and Gagosian, Courtesy of the Anthony Caro Centre

Artist Talk

Selected Works

Time Up, 2009–2010

Midday, 1960

Woman in Pregnancy, 1955
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Solo Exhibitions

Anthony Caro - Galerie Max Hetzler

Six Decades

Potsdamer Straße 77-87, Berlin

15 September – 29 October 2022
Anthony Caro - Galerie Max Hetzler

Oratorio, 1991–1992

Window Gallery, Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

15 September – 29 October 2022

Group Exhibitions

Then and Now - Galerie Max Hetzler

Then and Now

Anthony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

6 March – 19 April 2014

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Anthony Caro at Cliveden

Cliveden House, Taplow

6 April – 10 November 2019
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Sculpture Laid Bare

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

10 December 2016 – 22 May 2017
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Caro at CVNE

CVNE, Haro

2016
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Caro in Yorkshire

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

18 July – 1 November 2015
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Caro at Correr Museum

Museo Correr, Venice

1 June – 27 October 2013
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Anthony Caro

Tate Britain, London

26 January – 17 April 2005
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Caro a Roma

The Trajan Markets, Rome

May – August 1992

Biography

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Videos

Adam Pendleton

Interview: Paul Moorhouse

Chief Executive of the Anthony Caro Centre London; on the occasion of Anthony Caro's exhibition ‘Six Decades’ at Galerie Max Hetzler

Potsdamer Straße 77-87, Berlin

15 September 2022

Publications

THEN AND NOW - Galerie Max Hetzler

THEN AND NOW

Anthony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Jurriaan Benschop

€ 15.00

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Selected Press

ARTnews January 2017

Financial Times July 2015

The Guardian July 2015

Artforum February 2014

News

Anthony Caro et al.

Color Fields (group exhibition)
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura City
19 March – 4 September 2022

Four sculptures by British artist Sir Anthony Caro are included in a major presentation of Color Field works from the collection of Audrey and David Mirvish at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Sakura City, Japan. The exhibition brings together works by noteworthy artists from the Mirvish ...
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