CRAGG, TONY
1949 Liverpool

Title: Grenze weg.
Date: 2015.
Technique: Cast steel, corroded.
Measurement: 40.5 x 55 x 28 cm.
Notation: Signed in lower margin: Cragg. Editioned 21/35.


For the work a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and bearing a registered serial number is available.



Provenance:
- - Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf

- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia



To mark the 25th anniversary of German reunification, the sculptor Tony Cragg developed a steel sculpture entitled Grenze weg (Border Gone). In its proportions and column-like structure, the work bears a distant resemblance to the Brandenburg Gate — formerly a symbol of Germany’s division. Particularly striking is the prominent fissure at the centre of the sculpture, which may be understood as a symbol of the newly established connection, rendering permeable what was once an insurmountable barrier.

The sculpture Grenze weg was produced in an edition of 35 examples, together with 6 artist’s proofs, and was published by the newspaper BILD. The work stands as an exemplary expression of Cragg’s characteristic visual language, distinguished by its organic quality and freely conceived forms.



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