Java
By Anthony Caro
Category: Sculpture
About
Caro employs a broad vocabulary of forms including the figures, massive welded and painted places, and architecture/sculpture combinations. He works directly with his materials, without preliminary sketches or maquettes. Java, a structure of rusted steel plates and slabs projecting from an off-center juncture, is enriched by inset masses of congealed slag. Used in this way, the mill waste makes baroque contrast with the planar surfaces.
Courtesy of Laumeier Sculpture Park.
Dimensions: 8′ x 8′ x 8′
Year Completed: 1976
Material: Cor-ten steel
Donor: Gift of Margorie Wyman
About the artist:
Anthony Caro
b. 1924
Anthony Caro (Sir Anthony Caro OM, CBE) has been a key figure in contemporary sculpture for half a century. Since his ground-breaking show at the Whitechapel London Gallery in 1963, his work has continued to move and expand in new and different directions. Caro often works in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and paper. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He holds many honorary degrees from universities in the UK, USA and Europe. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit in May 2000.
