‘I think [After] is about life and death,’ he says. ‘That kind of tension between something that’s stiff and something that moves around. The steel bit is bright, so it’s alive, whereas the wooden bit is matte, so it’s dead.’ – Richard Deacon, interviewed by Zoe Pilger in Apollo’s February issue
This major retrospective looks particularly at the artist’s impressive use of materials, and his combination of industrial and organic forms
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