This volume celebrates a new body of work by British artist Michael
Craig-Martin--monumental, vividly colored sculptures that explore the
nature of illusion and belief.
Since the 1960s Michael Craig-Martin has developed a vocabulary of
imagery based on common, everyday items. In drawings, paintings,
installations, and sculptures, he has probed the relationship between
objects and images, perception and reality. This book presents recent
large-scale sculptures by the artist, produced with exacting
draftsmanship and fabricated in powder-coated steel in vibrant shades.
The elegant forms of these works appear like drawings in the air. Each
three to four meters tall, they depict items ranging from the
timeless--as in Fork and Knife (green and purple) (2019)--to the
distinctly contemporary, as in Headphones (magenta) (2019).
This volume was published to commemorate the first indoor presentation
of the artist's sculpture, at Gagosian, London, in 2019. A beautiful
plate section documents each of the works in the exhibition, and dynamic
installation views highlight the artist's exploration of spatial
relationships through the juxtaposition of color. An in-depth
conversation with Craig-Martin by Lynn Zelevansky traces his development
as an artist, addresses the centrality of drawing to his practice, and
illuminates the relationship between the two-dimensional and the
three-dimensional in his work.
