Anthony Caro
A Centenary Exhibition
Nevill Holt Festival 2024
Anthony Caro played a pivotal role in the development of 20th Century British sculpture. He experimented with a diverse range of materials from steel to bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and paper. An inspiration for subsequent generations of abstract sculptors, this large scale retrospective of his outdoor sculpture for Nevill Holt Festival 2024 covered six decades of his work in each of these materials.
Curated by Paul Caro and Ben Caro with Albany Bell
Anthony Caro (1924 – 2013) was celebrated as one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century. He came to public attention with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963 where he showed large abstract sculptures, brightly painted and positioned on the floor so that they engaged the spectator directly. This was a radical departure from the way sculpture had hitherto been seen and paved the way for future developments in three-dimensional art.
