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RICHARD DEACON: RECENT CERAMICS

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15 September to 13 November 2021
  • Working with ceramics, Richard Deacon is interested in the play of control and chance in the creation of the colored...

    Working with ceramics, Richard Deacon is interested in the play of control and chance in the creation of the colored glazes as surfaces. Since around 2010, Deacon experiments with tile-like objects like poetic symbols of everyday life, presenting them on the floor, on low table scaffolds, on the wall like a two-sided mirror in space or when very small like in the group of "Flash, Bang, Wallop" as photographs on a mantlepiece. The viewer senses the hidden heaviness of the massive material and perceives the shimmering colors of the "Flats" from above: "Surface is everything," as the artist says himself. The surfaces of Deacon's ceramic works can appear as geometric networks or as color gradients inside ornamental bodies but also spill out over the edges of the objects with expressive streaks of color.

  • “Glazing is interesting when you work on a flat surface, because it kind of wanders around on the surface, when it turns liquid in the kiln. In the progression of my work, I have explored the kinds of fusions that happen on the surface.”

     

    — Richard Deacon

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  • “The first ceramics were square, and then the question of shape became interesting. So the next group of works became higher and more solid, but still with a flat top. And at the same time, I started to experiment with different clays and explore the relationship between surface and edge.”

     

    — Richard Deacon

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  • “Progressively, I began using the glaze in a much more mixed-up fashion. The kind of glazing activity I did, how I performed in relation to throwing the glaze around, became quite a significant part of the work. I've got quite interested in the way the color works.”

     

    — Richard Deacon

  • FLASH, BANG, WALLOP FLASH, BANG, WALLOP FLASH, BANG, WALLOP

    FLASH, BANG, WALLOP

    “Flash, Bang, Wallop” is the title of a series of hand-sized, centimeter-thick slabs of clay. In contrast to the colored and glazed surfaces, the cut edges of the discs remain untreated. The polygonal pieces are held up with the help of thin metal sheets and presented individually on wall bases. It is a group of idiosyncratic, autonomous and individual pieces which are at once closely related and part of a larger context. And of course, with the way they are supported, each having one coloured surface, they have a certain resemblance to family photographs standing on the sideboard. Through their form, process and production, these perfect solitaires cut to the core of the most basic questions of sculpture in inventive ways. As a form in space, the sculpture is structurally expandable at will. It appears that if taken as individual pieces of a puzzle, the objects could transgress their own boundaries.

    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 7, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 7, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 18, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 18, 2018
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 16, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 16, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 17, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 17, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 15, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 15, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 14, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 14, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 2, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 2, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 11, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 11, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 12, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 12, 2018
      EUR 25,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 10, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 10, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
    • Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 5, 2018
      Richard Deacon, Flash, Bang, Wallop 5, 2018
      EUR 20,000.00 plus VAT and transport
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  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, Richard Deacon has emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated sculptors. In his sculptural work, Deacon uses a wide range of materials. His structures emerge from a keen interest in the characteristics of the material itself, allowing him to play with the ways in which it can be shaped and how it relates to human association and sensory experience.
    Richard Deacon was the recipient of the 1987 Turner Prize and was made Commander of the British Empire in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture in France, and in 1998 was elected a Royal Academician in London. The Akademie der Künste in Berlin elected him a member in 2010. He has held professorships at the Ecole Normale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and other institutions. Alongside numerous solo exhibitions in museums in Europe, the US and Asia, he has participated in many of the most significant survey exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, documenta, and Skulptur Projekte Münster. Recent solo exhibitions include the San Diego Museum of Art (2017), Prague City Gallery (2017), Middelheimmuseum (2017), Langen Foundation and Skulpturenhalle Thomas Schütte in Neuss (2016), Museum Folkwang (2016), Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2015), Tate Britain (2014), the University of New Mexico Art Museum (2011), and Sprengel Museum (2011). His works can be found in leading collections including the Tate, Centre George Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, Kunstmuseum Basel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stedelijk Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Kröller-Müller Museum, MCA in Chicago, MoMA, SFMOMA, Walker Art Gallery, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Richard Deacon lives and works in London.

    Photo Ken Adlard

    • RICHARD DEACON: ON THE SURFACE, Exhibition

      RICHARD DEACON: ON THE SURFACE

      Exhibition

      Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum
      Rheinsberg, Germany
      19 June to 29 August 2021


      The exhibition focused on new ceramic works by Richard Deacon. Presented on the website is a video with an artist's statement on the exhibition and a tour of the exhibition with Angela Lammert and Julian Heynen (in German).

      WATCH ARTIST STATEMENT
    • RICHARD DEACON: CERAMICS, Dossier

      RICHARD DEACON: CERAMICS

      Dossier

      This dossier represents three different groups of colorfully-glazed ceramics. The first are large rectangular sculptures that the artist presents on the wall or upright, held by metal stands. The second are free-standing, organically-shaped concrete sculptures. And the third group entails miniature, poligonal tile-like objects.

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    • RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY, EXHIBITION

      RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY

      EXHIBITION

      Galerie Thomas Schulte
      Berlin, Germany
      15 September to 13 November 2021


      Galerie Thomas Schulte presents new large-scale stainless-steel works by Richard Deacon. The two sculptures, both titled Twofold Way, are the latest in a series of complex, perspective-shifting skeletal frameworks that the British sculptor has been producing since around 2008.

      www.galeriethomasschulte.de
    • RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY AT ART BASEL UNLIMITED , DOSSIER

      RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY AT ART BASEL UNLIMITED

      DOSSIER

      Galerie Thomas Schulte presented at the Unlimited exhibition of Art Basel 2021 a large outdoor work from Richard Deacon’s latest series of skeletal sculptures titled Fourfold Way. An installation of two smaller sculptures from the same series is currently on show at our gallery in Berlin.

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    • Fabricate and Sculpt: Richard Deacon by Philipp Hindahl , Article

      Fabricate and Sculpt: Richard Deacon by Philipp Hindahl

      Article

      Mousse Magazine and Publishing
      November 2021


      Richard Deacon recalls being overwhelmed as a child by the four Buddha statues at Gal Vihara, a temple in Sri Lanka where his military officer father was stationed in the mid-1950s.

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