Thinking Big | Concepts for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture

Sculpture at Goodwood © 2002

0953779432

£5.00

softcover, dual spine book.

introduction by Tim Marlow
closing words by Thomas Krens, Director of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
'british sculpture: an open book' by Rod Mengham, Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge
information about all 85 maquettes shown at the exhibition
abstract and studio photography of the maquettes by Richard Learoyd
detailed biographies of the artists who worked with us

This book, with its wealth of information about contemporary British sculpture and striking photographic images, was occasioned by the exhibition Thinking Big: Concepts for Twenty-first Century British Sculpture, held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (the Italian branch of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), from September 2002 - January 2004, and jointly organised with Sculpture at Goodwood.

The Thinking Big exhibition offered a microcosmic view of contemporary British sculpture: 85 small-scale works by artists born in seven different decades of the previous century, produced in every conceivable material - from glass and bronze to rubber and photographic paper. It can be perceived as a celebration of the range and variety of sculpture in Britain, viewed Lilliput-like from on high by the visitor whose size will be ten times that of most of the objects on show. But it is also, more fundamentally, a kind of creative laboratory where the processes of realising a sculpture are opened up both physically and conceptually and where the scale of thought and ambition is often immense.