Anthony Caro 
Works available
Millbank Steps
2004
Corten steel, rusted
534 × 780 × 2307.3 cm / 17ft 6 x 25ft 6 × 75ft
The New Art Centre is delighted to announce that the important work Millbank Steps by Anthony Caro, will be exhibited at Roche Court from spring 2008. The sculpture was commissioned especially for his major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2004, where it was sited in the Duveen galleries. It is one of Caros most ambitious works, made from corten steel and explores his familiar relationship between sculpture and architecture. The internal spaces of the structure will encourage visitors to interact with the sculpture and it will look magnificent in the landscape.
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Pin Up Flat
1974
Steel, rusted and varnished
200.5 × 261.5 × 170 cm / 6ft 7ins x 8ft 7ins x 5ft 7 ins
Pleats Flat
1974
Steel rusted and varnished
282 × 193 × 122 cm / 9ft 3ins x 6ft 4ins x 4ft
Biography
(1924–)
While at the end of his strict, academic training at the Royal Academy, Anthony Caro worked as an assistant to Henry Moore and Caro's figural works of the 1950s are clearly influenced by this experience. He is better known however, for his radical and brightly coloured steel sculptures of the following decade, which were inspired by the writings of the formalist critics such as Clement Greenberg and the Abstract Expressionists. Caro's one-man exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1963 brought him considerable critical attention. He was quickly regarded as a major figure for his role, both through his work and his teaching at St Martin's School of Art, London, in creating a new abstract school of British sculpture. In 2004/5 the Tate celebrated Caro's work with a major retrospective. In May 2007, a group of his 1970s steel sculptures were exhibited at Roche Court together with paintings by his wife, Sheila Girling. In 2008 his major installation, The Chapel of Light, will open at the Church of St Jean Baptiste, Bourbourg, France.