[Press Release]

About Tony Cragg – Sculptures and Drawings

Turner-prize winning artist Tony Cragg’s first solo exhibition inShanghaiwill be unveiled at the new site of Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Art Museum. Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings will open to the public on September 8 and run through November 18.

Works on display will include 50 sculptures and 127 drawings, making it the largest ever Tony Cragg solo show inChina. Featuring both indoor and outdoor pieces, this will be a rare and precious opportunity for viewers to explore the artist’s world of art in depth.

His work reflects an intense curiosity that has driven him to create, test, twist and stretch materials, to see what each one does most naturally: this has been a defining characteristic of Cragg’s work throughout his career. According to him: “As a sculptor, who obviously trusts a lot in material, I can say, I see the world and human life in material terms. Therefore I believe that a sculptor has an enormous responsibility for that bit of material that he comes by.”

Tony Cragg won the Turner Prize in 1988, the year in which he also represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He was awarded the prestigious Piepenbrock Award for sculpture in 2002 and the Japanese Praemium Imperiale international art prize in 2007. In January 2010, his exhibition under the glass pyramid at the Louvre was the first to be staged there by a living artist.