Richard Deacon "Assembly"
Mad. Sq. Art
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The Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art program presents Richard Deacon: Assembly, an exhibition of seven large, brilliantly-colored ceramic sculptures on the lawns of historic Madison Square Park in Midtown Manhattan.
Welsh-born artist Richard Deacon has transformed public art and achieved international recognition for his sculpture, which is marked by an interest in materials and their manipulation and an innovative use of open form. Deacon has challenged and extended notions of what sculpture is and might be. His work ranges from bent forms and fluid constructions in wood and metal, to large scale works that contain the architecture of a space, to works that subvert industrial construction into a new meaning and material expression.Over the past few years Deacon has been exploring clay and ceramics as a sculptural material.
The Madison Square Park exhibition focuses on this new and inventive aspect of Deacon’s work—his investigation into ceramics. In the park, Deacon will show seven new ceramic works never before publicly exhibited that were created over the last year at the Niels Dietrich ceramic studio in Cologne, Germany.
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Schedule
from May 15, 2008 to August 24, 2008