Caro, Anthony.
Works of the artist.
Anthony Caro (Surrey, 1924 - London, 2013) was a British and Sephardic sculptor. His abstract-style sculptural work was characterized by the assemblage of scrap metal and industrial objects. [+]
Caro, Anthony
Anthony Caro (Surrey, 1924 - London, 2013) was a British and Sephardic sculptor. His abstract-style sculptural work was characterized by the assemblage of scrap metal and industrial objects.
Caro began his artistic training at Christ's College, Cambridge University. However, he discovered modern art by working with Henry Moore, to whom he was an assistant from 1951 to 1953. He was fascinated with the artistic approach of Clement Greenberg, Kenneth Noland and the sculptor David Smith, after following their to the United States in the 1960s. Consequently, he abandoned the figurative work of his early days to move towards sculptures made from welds or assemblages of prefabricated metal parts (in steel, iron, or alloys), creating pieces of various forms and often painting the final result in bright flat colours.
Among his most important exhibitions were retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1975), the Trajan Markets in Rome (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain in London (2005) and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), on the occasion of the inauguration of his Chapel of Light in Bourbourg. He received numerous awards, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997, as well as received numerous honorary degrees from universities in the UK, USA and Europe. In addition, he was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit in May 2000.
Caro unfortunately died of a heart attack on 23 October 2013, aged 89, yet his sculptural legacy remains one of the most successful in today's art world.
