Galerie Thomas Schulte
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Art Fairs
  • Viewing Room
  • News
  • Editions
  • Channel
  • About
  • EN
  • 简体
Cart
0 items €
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
  • EN
  • 简体

FOURFOLD WAY: RICHARD DEACON,

15 September TO 13 November 2021

FOURFOLD WAY: RICHARD DEACON

Past Exhibitions In The Gallery exhibition
  • Introduction
  • Installation Views
  • Video
  • Virtual Exhibition
  • Artists on view
  • Introduction
    FOURFOLD WAY, RICHARD DEACON

    Galerie Thomas Schulte presents new large-scale stainless-steel works by Richard Deacon. The two sculptures, both titled Twofold Way, are the latest in a series of complex, perspective-shifting skeletal frameworks that the British sculptor has been producing since around 2008.

     

    Deacon, who refers to himself as a ‘fabricator’, is known for his use of a wide range of materials—from wood, marble, and stainless steel to foam, clay, and leather, among others. In these works, he employs stainless steel once again; folded sheets are adjoined into abstract forms comprising irregular polyhedra. The objects’ constructedness is palpable in the final works—their seams remain visible. In Deacon’s sculptures, in fact, screws or glue used to attach and hold materials together are often left exposed, describing where and how the material has been acted upon—its precise relationship to form.

     

    In tandem with this emphatic materiality, language, for Deacon, also plays an integral role. The titles of his works often reference or play on clichés and familiar phrases. They are ambiguous, like the abstract structures themselves. The exhibition title, for instance, may at once refer to the series of folds in the stainless-steel sheets that produce the forms, or a path branching off in four directions.

     

    Deacon has said that the skeletal frameworks developed from ceramic works in which he had hollowed out lumps of clay—starting with the material and taking some away. In reference to another series of small-scale sculptures titled  Art For Other People (which he began in 1982 and for which he has used a variety of materials), he has remarked that, “Most are built around a material that isn’t there.”[1] This interchange between working from the outside-in and inside-out, between positive and negative space, is visualized in large-scale stainless-steel frameworks like those in these sculptures. Fluctuations between inner and outer space, as well as the objects’ cast shadows and surface reflections, together with their modular-seeming construction, lend them a certain malleability—a mutating appearance.

     

    Painted on the inside, their material—stainless steel—mutates, too—further underlining the relationship between interior and exterior through changes in texture and surface quality. Such dichotomies also extend beyond the individual works, as one is painted white inside, and the other black—forming a contrast between light and dark. While one sculpture is squatter, more compact, the other rises up sharply, almost cathedral-like. The two remain separate, and, at the same time, suggest parts of a larger whole.

     

    Indeed, taken together, the sculptures may evoke embodiments of cosmic duality, or else architectural structures, networks, a pair of enigmatic entities. They are an open yet substantial presence in the space of the gallery: fluid, prone to shifts, though precisely articulated. Like opposite poles, they engage one another—in the process, pulling their surroundings, and us, into a field of rhythmic exchange.

     

    —Text by Julianne Cordray

     

    [1] Richard Deacon on being a “fabricator”, SFMOMA. https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/richard-deacon-being-fabricator/

     

     

    The exhibition is supported by NEUSTART KULTUR/Stiftung Kulturfonds.

  • Works
    • Marco_Funke-GTS-RICHARD-DEACON_4239
      Richard Deacon
      Twofold Way CD (Black), 2021
      stainless steel
      160 x 145 x 240 cm
      63 x 57 x 94 1/2 in
      Inquire
      %3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3ERichard%20Deacon%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3ETwofold%20Way%20CD%20%28Black%29%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22comma%22%3E%2C%20%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2021%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3Estainless%20steel%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E160%20x%20145%20x%20240%20cm%3Cbr/%3E%0A63%20x%2057%20x%2094%201/2%20in%3C/div%3E
    • Richard Deacon Twofold Way AB (White), 2021 stainless steel 242 x 340 x 145 cm 95 4/16 x 133 13/16 x 57 1/16 ins
      Richard Deacon
      Twofold Way AB (White), 2021
      stainless steel
      242 x 340 x 145 cm 95 4/16 x 133 13/16 x 57 1/16 ins
    • Cuttings 3 RDe18-9 A
      Richard Deacon
      Cuttings 3, 2018
      stainless steel
      31 x 39 x 26.5 cm
      12 1/4 x 15 1/3 x 10 1/2 in
      Plinth dimensions:
      55.5 x 55 x 55 cm
      21 3/4 x 21 2/3 x 21 2/3 in
      Inquire
      %3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3ERichard%20Deacon%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3ECuttings%203%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22comma%22%3E%2C%20%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2018%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3Estainless%20steel%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E31%20x%2039%20x%2026.5%20cm%3Cbr/%3E%0A12%201/4%20x%2015%201/3%20x%2010%201/2%20in%3Cbr/%3E%0APlinth%20dimensions%3A%3Cbr/%3E%0A55.5%20x%2055%20x%2055%20cm%3Cbr/%3E%0A21%203/4%20x%2021%202/3%20x%2021%202/3%20in%3C/div%3E
    • Cuttings 2 RDe18-8 A
      Richard Deacon
      Cuttings 2, 2018
      stainless steel
      34 x 53 x 29 cm
      13 1/2 x 20 3/4 x 11 1/2 in
      Plinth: 55.5 x 55 x 55 cm
      21 3/4 x 21 2/3 x 21 2/3 in
    Close
  • Installation Views
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
  • INQUIRE ABOUT WORKS BY Richard Deacon
    Inquire
    INQUIRE ABOUT WORKS BY Richard Deacon
  • Video
  • Virtual Exhibition
  • Artists on view
    • Richard Deacon

      Richard Deacon

Back to exhibitions
Galerie Thomas Schulte
Legal Notice
Privacy Policy
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Facebook, opens in a new tab.

Galerie Thomas Schulte GMBH
Charlottenstrasse 24
d-10117 berlin

Phone: 0049 (0)30 20 60 89 90

Fax: 0049 (0)30 20 60 89 91 0

Mail@galeriethomasschulte.de

Sign up for newsletter

Opening Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday

12pm - 6pm

Galerie Thomas Schulte will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2023 Galerie Thomas Schulte

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Join our mailing list

By completing this form, you confirm that you would like to subscribe to Galerie Thomas Schulte’s email newsletter and receive weekly information about artists and upcoming events. Your email address will be used exclusively for the newsletter service. 

Signup

* denotes required fields

We will process the personal data you have supplied to communicate with you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.