Anthony Caro

"Anthony Caro is one of the greatest figures in contemporary sculpture. He taught many of the artists who characterize contemporary English art: Richard Long, Bill Woodrow, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George... The majority of his career was spent in Britain and the United States, then in Europe and Japan. The most prestigious galleries and museums have exhibited his works: The MoMA in New York, the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tate Modern in London. However, in France, his recognition was slow even though he received the Sculpture Prize at the first Paris Biennale in 1959, and two exhibitions were dedicated to him at the museums of Calais and Angers in the 1990s. The artist is currently completing a monumental set of sculptures for the baptistery of the church of Bourbourg in the North, as part of a public commission from the French state. To accompany the inauguration of this public commission and thus offer a global presentation of the artist's work in France, a series of retrospectives of Caro's work, of his first painted steel assemblages made in the 1960s, up to his most recent creations, is organized by the museums of Angers, Calis, Dunkirk and Gravelines." --