- Working with ceramics, Richard Deacon is interested in the play of control and chance in the creation of the colored glazes as surfaces. Since around 2010, Deacon experiments with tile-like objects like poetic symbols of everyday life, presenting them on the floor, on low table scaffolds, on the wall like a two-sided mirror in space or when very small like in the group of "Flash, Bang, Wallop" as photographs on a mantlepiece. The viewer senses the hidden heaviness of the massive material and perceives the shimmering colors of the "Flats" from above: "Surface is everything," as the artist says himself. The surfaces of Deacon's ceramic works can appear as geometric networks or as color gradients inside ornamental bodies but also spill out over the edges of the objects with expressive streaks of color.
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“Glazing is interesting when you work on a flat surface, because it kind of wanders around on the surface, when it turns liquid in the kiln. In the progression of my work, I have explored the kinds of fusions that happen on the surface.”— Richard Deacon
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“The first ceramics were square, and then the question of shape became interesting. So the next group of works became higher and more solid, but still with a flat top. And at the same time, I started to experiment with different clays and explore the relationship between surface and edge.”— Richard Deacon
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“Progressively, I began using the glaze in a much more mixed-up fashion. The kind of glazing activity I did, how I performed in relation to throwing the glaze around, became quite a significant part of the work. I've got quite interested in the way the color works.”— Richard Deacon
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RICHARD DEACON: ON THE SURFACE
ExhibitionKURT TUCHOLSKY LITERATURMUSEUM
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RHEINSBERG, GERMANY
19 JUNE TO 29 AUGUST 2021
The exhibition focused on new ceramic works by Richard Deacon. Presented on the website is a video with an artist's statement on the exhibition and a tour of the exhibition with Angela Lammert and Julian Heynen (in German). -
RICHARD DEACON: CERAMICS
DOSSIERThis dossier represents three different groups of colorfully-glazed ceramics. The first are large rectangular sculptures that the artist presents on the wall or upright, held by metal stands. The second are free-standing, organically-shaped concrete sculptures. And the third group entails miniature, poligonal tile-like objects.
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RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY
EXHIBITIONGALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE
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BERLIN, GERMANY
15 SEPTEMBER TO 13 NOVEMBER 2021
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. -
RICHARD DEACON: FOURFOLD WAY AT ART BASEL UNLIMITED
DOSSIERGalerie Thomas Schulte presented at the Unlimited exhibition of Art Basel 2021 a large outdoor work from Richard Deacon’s latest series of skeletal sculptures titled Fourfold Way. An installation of two smaller sculptures from the same series is currently on show at our gallery in Berlin.
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Fabricate and Sculpt: Richard Deacon by Philipp Hindahl
ARTICLEMOUSSE MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHING
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NOVEMBER 2021
Richard Deacon recalls being overwhelmed as a child by the four Buddha statues at Gal Vihara, a temple in Sri Lanka where his military officer father was stationed in the mid-1950s.
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Richard Deacon: Recent Ceramics
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