Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg

            Tony Cragg’s major them focuses on recycling and making this into a sculptor. Tony’s media contains materials that he has found from construction sites and discarded household materials. He is known for taking these materials and testing them to their limit by using special artistry. For example splitting, stacking and crushing these found materials. After this, Tony began to use more accustomed materials such as bronze, wood, and marble that he would make into simple forms. Cragg also has brought forth and used his technological background into his everyday work.

            “Bent of Mind” is a progression towards metamorphosis. This piece stands 465 x 270 x 270 cm.  It brings forth a way of changing its form into something different. Cragg says, “Making and viewing sculpture offers essential ways of knowing and understandings. “Bent of Mind” approaches the continuous state of flux in which all matter exists. As one moves around “Bent of Mind”, one gains many different perspectives of this piece.

"Bent of Mind"

 

Other works:

"Ferryman" created in 1997 out of bronze.

"Auf der Lictung"