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Indepth Arts News:
"William Tucker"
2001-03-03 until 2001-11-25
Tate Liverpool
Liverpool, ,
UK United Kingdom
This display of sculpture and prints by William Tucker brings together
both work from the Tate Collection and from private collections in the
UK. The selection traces the development of his practice from
construction to modelling and casting, and presents a broad range of
his work to British audiences to whom his later career is relatively
unfamiliar.
Since the late 1950s Tucker has pursued a continuing investigation
into the nature of sculpture and its relationship to the viewer. In
1965 he received acclaim as one of the ‘New Generation’ sculptors, for
his constructed colour sculpture, which played a vital role in
changing the face of British sculpture, until then dominated by Henry
Moore and his followers. During the 1970s colour disappeared from Tucker’s sculpture, which
became linear in style, and after his move to New York in 1978,
monumental in scale. In the early 1980s construction in wood and steel
was replaced by direct modelling in plaster, to be cast into bronze.
As the work has become fuller in form, the suggestion of the human
image has become stronger and encourages the viewer to consider the
work in relation to their own body. The entire development of his work
over the past forty years may be read as a progression from the visual
to the physical, from the analytical to the expressive.
Image:
William Tucker
Tunnel 1972-5
Laminated board reinforced with
steel (Sbm)
2130mm x 3840mm x 3270mm
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