Dimensions: displayed: 795 x 2055 x 1250 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Anthony Caro/Barford Sculptures Ltd | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Anthony Caro's "Table Piece CCLXVI" at the Tate Modern, made from painted steel. It's surprisingly delicate, considering the material. What do you make of its presence here? Curator: It's crucial to remember Caro emerged post-war, questioning traditional sculptural monumentality. His use of industrial materials like steel, often painted and placed directly on the floor or a table, democratizes the art experience. Editor: Democratizes? How so? Curator: Well, sculpture traditionally celebrated power or status. Caro's work, especially in its table-top scale, disrupts that. It reframes our relationship to space and material, asking us to reconsider what’s deemed worthy of artistic attention. Editor: I see... it definitely makes you think about what art *should* be. Curator: Exactly! And that questioning is always relevant, isn't it?
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Table Piece CCLXVI is constructed on a human scale. At just over two metres wide it is comparable to the width of a person’s outstretched arms. Caro has observed that: ‘all sculpture is to do with the physical – all sculpture takes its bearings from the fact that we live inside our bodies and that our size and stretch and strength is what it is’. Gallery label, October 2016
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