Tony Cragg

Private Collection, Paris

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are minor surface abrasions on the work, presumably from having been installed outdoors.
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"We have an ability to look at a cloud and see a face, or we look into some vegetation and see a face, because we have this enormous facility to recognise profiles and faces, so it's almost inevitable that when there are no faces to look at, our brain is revving all the time, looking for parameters for two eyes, and a nose, and a mouth, and some ears. Alongside that we can recognise millions of different faces, without ever mixing them up. However, I would like to think that my Rational Being sculpture works in a different way, in the reverse of that, so that you look at the work, and you see a face, and in seeing the face, it leads you to look into the material and then look at the other forms. And, the minute you look back into the form, away from the profile and into the surface of the work, you step away from the normal, axial view of the work and you start to have ‘extra-ordinary’ experiences of sculptural volumes." - Tony Cragg