Dimensions: object: 2896 x 6198 x 3353 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Anthony Caro/Barford Sculptures Ltd | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Sir Anthony Caro's "Early One Morning," a large steel sculpture in a vibrant, almost alarming red. It feels like a playground deconstructed. What's your take on this? Curator: It's audacious, isn't it? Caro always challenged the idea of sculpture being something solid and monumental. This work feels more like a drawing in space, an explosion of pure, unadulterated color and form. Do you feel the tension between its playful nature and the industrial material? Editor: I can see the tension, definitely. It's like it wants to be light and airy, but the steel keeps it grounded. I'm starting to appreciate the playful aspect more now. Curator: It invites you to walk around it, to experience it from different angles, almost like a dance. Editor: I get that. It's definitely more dynamic than I initially thought. Thanks for pointing that out! Curator: My pleasure. It's a work that keeps revealing itself, I think.
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Early One Morning is a major example of the kind of sculpture that established Caro as the leading young sculptor of the 1960s. In this work, his arrangement of planes and lines along a horizontal axis gave greater freedom in creating different rhythms and configurations. The work has no fixed visual identity and no single focus of interest. Rather, it unfolds and expands into the spectator’s space, its appearance changing with the viewpoint. The individual elements are unified by the bright red colour and Caro sees the way they cohere, making a sculptural whole, as being like the relationship of notes within a piece of music. Gallery label, September 2016
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