Tony Cragg Aube (Dawn), 1987 Various materials, wax crayon

1275 x 119 x78 cm
502 x 46 7/8 x30 3/4 inches

Aube (Dawn) belongs to the group ‚Villages‘ or ‚Landscapes‘ by Tony Cragg, whose starting point is often a used table, which the artist then combines with stylized houses with gabled roofs made of simple industrial wood, mostly chipboard.

The table, object of the human center of life, creates an architecture in which the houses are arranged on different levels like in a terraced landscape. With a black wax crayon, Tony Cragg has covered the individual elements densely with a strong wave-shaped drawing and removes the individual objects from their boundaries. He transforms them into a new, sculptural quality.

Interesting is the title, which refers to the dawning daylight but also evokes the horizon, which creates a spatial boundary that lies outside the sculpture.

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