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Anthony Caro - Sculpitecture (29/53)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Abstract sculptor Anthony Caro (1924-2013) was born in England. His characteristic method of sculpture involved the use of prefabricated metal. An influential tutor, Caro taught at St Martin’s School of Art. He was knighted in 1987. [Listener: Tim Marlow; date recorded: 2005]

TRANSCRIPT: I'm very interested in the idea of a sculpture building, and... well, the idea of interior space interests me a lot, and the idea... for example, I made a sculpture with Elena Foster. Did you ever see it? It was... it was a sort of... it opened up. It was called "Open Secret". And when, I think, Gehry and... and Norman saw this and they said, ‘It's... it's an architecture, a piece... it's a building’. I'd love to make it into a building – a building that the whole roof opened, a building that... you know, it... that was like a sculpture but ended up by being a building. I'd love to do something like that. I don't want to get into the mechanical stuff at all, no, not as the real architecture stuff at all.

[TM] Did you use to build tree huts and things when you were a kid?

Oh yeah, everybody does. You know, I built things for the children and so on but I didn't... it didn't mean anything to me though.  Except when I built the "Child's Tower"; that was like that. It was like that; it was like a... a place that you could discover your body in... in a way. And when I built a larger version for the Tate for the... the steel one and the door was too small, I made it bigger. It didn't work when it was bigger; you had to... I mean, squeezing through it made sense so I... I changed it back again. It has to be kind of... it has to be awkward. It has to be a thing that you are conscious of your body in those... those buildings. They're not buildings; they are... they are a development of sculpture. I love the idea of a sculpture which has no outside and has only inside.

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