Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Works on Paper

Tony Cragg (born 1949) is a British sculptor, installation artist, draughtsman, and printmaker who has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany, since the 1970s. He is one of the most prominent sculptors of our time, exhibiting his work from the 1970s to the present day in major museums and galleries around the world. He is a graduate of London's Wimbledon School of Art (1973) and the Royal College of Art (MA degree in 1977). Furthermore, he was professor at L'École des Beaux Arts in Metz and then for nearly 40 years at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (1978-2016, as rector from 2009-13), alongside Joseph Beuys and A.R. Penck, co-shaping the face of European art in the 1980s. He also worked as professor of sculpture at the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris (1999-2009) and the Universität der Künste in Berlin (2001-06). In Poland, he has presented his works at Galeria Foksal in 1978, the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2016) and the Contemporary Museum in Wrocław (2017). Now it is the turn of his largest exhibition to date at the Centre for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń.

The Toruń exhibition, Tony Cragg. Sculptures and Works on Paper, brings together 53, mostly large-format sculptures, realized in a variety of techniques and coming from all periods of the artist's work – from the 1970s to the most recent, as well as 125 drawings, prints, and watercolours. The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the artist and Studio Cragg in Wuppertal and curated by Krzysztof Stanislawski. Tony Cragg's works are arranged in the most representative Column Hall and the rooms on the first floor of the CCA, an area of 2000 m2, as well as on the ground floor of the building and in the Contemporary Sculpture Park next to the CCA building. The exhibition will be accompanied by a film review of the artist's work, an extensive educational and workshop programme. A comprehensive catalogue-monograph of Tony Cragg will be published, bringing together texts by Polish, British and German authors.

Coordinator: Olga Bazelak
Preliminary coordinator: Paulina Kuhn
Production: John McCormack (Tony Cragg Studio), Wojciech Ruminski (CCA Torun)