Author: Kelly, Julia; Schwarz, Dieter; Hasenbohler, Serge; Tucker, William
Title: William Tucker
Description: Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2016. Softcover. Small Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 112 pages : color illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm. William Tucker, born in Egypt in 1935 as the son of an English officer, is one of the leading representatives of English sculpture after Henry Moore. Tucker's career took an unusual course: in the 1960s he successfully established himself as a sculptor in England with his abstract constructive work, and with The Language of Sculpture he wrote an influential work on 20th century sculpture. At the end of the 1970s Tucker moved to the United States and built a new studio, first in Brooklyn and then in a remote location in New York State. This new beginning allowed him to return to the basics of sculpture, and he began to model figurative forms. These are works that start from fist-sized lumps of clay and can reach monumental dimensions. They preserve within themselves the delicate moment of transition from the inert, amorphous mass from which they are created to the readable figure. Their archaic power evokes stages of sculpture from antiquity through Degas and Rodin to Alberto Giacometti. This impressive late work, which has yet to be discovered in Europe, forms an authentic counterpart to Arp's modeled sculptures shown at the same time. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (30.01-22.05.2016). German / English language. VG.

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