'Tony Cragg: Infinite forme e bellissime' at The Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy

27 November 2024

Until 4 May 2025, The Museo Nazionale Romano presents 'Tony Cragg: Infinite forme e bellissime' at the Baths of Diocletian. 'Infinite forme e bellissime', curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stéphane Verger, presents a major solo exhibition by the artist, one of the most celebrated exponents of contemporary sculpture, known for having experimented with surprising forms alongside new materials and techniques since the 1970s. The exhibition is organized by BAM – Eventi d'Arte with Municipio I Roma Centro.

Constantly pushing to find new relations between people and the material world, there is no limit to the materials he might use, as there are no limits to the ideas or forms he might conceive. Cragg's early, stacked works present a taxonomical understanding of the world, and he has said that he sees manmade objects as “fossilized keys to a past time which is our present”. So too, the floor and wall arrangements of objects that he started making in the 1980s blur the line between manmade and natural landscapes: they create an outline of something familiar, where the contributing parts relate to the whole. Cragg understands sculpture as a study of how material and material forms affect and form our ideas and emotions.

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Image: © Tony Cragg; Courtesy The Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano. Photography by Michael Richter.