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Richard_Deacon_talking_with_Caryn_Faure_Walker.pdf
Interview published in Aspects, No. 17, Winter 1981/82, pp.11-12
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Water_under_the_Bridge.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon, 'Water Under The Bridge', Paris: Editions Jannink 2008
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Baltic_Anish.pdf
First published in a catalogue to commemorate the installation of 'Taratantara' by Anish Kapoor at the Baltic on pp 31-32
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Objects__Sculpture.pdf
Richard Deacon's statement is an extract from an interview with Iwona Blazwick during the period 24 April to 1 May 1981published by Institute of Contemporary Arts: London/ Arnolfini Gallery: Bristol, 1981
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Where_Do_Ideas_Come_From.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Boundaries_and_Meaning_Making.pdf
Text written by Vikki Bell, published in a catalogue: 'New World Order / Richard Deacon', Tate Liverpool, 20 February - 16 May 1999, p.35-39
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Like_a_Snail.pdf
First published, in the catalogue to the ‘Munster Skulptur Projecte’, 1987 (in German translation)
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Conversation_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
A conversation was published in ART Monthly, February 1985, Number 83, pp. 17-18 at the occasion of Richard Deacon exhibition at the Tate Gallery 12 March - 9 June 1985
Re-printed in under a title: 'Richard Deacon interviewed by Patricia Bickers. Curvilinear v rectilinear', in 'Talking Art Interviews with artists since 1976', edited by Patricia Bickers and Andrew Wilson, Art Monthly Ridinghouse 2007, pp. 239-242 -
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Verbatim_Transcript.pdf
Text performed at St. Martins School of Art by RD and Clive Walters.
The text is a transcription of a recorded discussion between the two of them about their plans for showing the work they had done together at St. Martins30 copies, duplicated, 1972
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Interview_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
The interview was written and published for NinguneArte,(www.ningunearte.com) by María Barrio González
In English/Spanish
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Javier_González_de_Durana_in_conversation_with_Richard_Deaco.pdf
The conversation was published in the catalogue Richard Deacon 'The Size Of It', Richter Verlag Düsseldorf, pp. 44-54
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Only_The_Lonely.pdf
'Faxed correspondence 17 -19 May 1993' between Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow published in a catalogue: "Only The Lonely: and other shared sculptures', Chisenhale Gallery, London, England, 19 May - 20 June 1993
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New_Bases_for_Old_Sculpture.pdf
First published in 'Image and Idol: Medieval sculpture', exhib. cat., Tate, London, 2001, pp.9-17
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Walk_On_By.pdf
Handout for the exhibition Richard Deacon at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 28 November 2012 - 24 January 2013
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Deacons_Faith.pdf
Text written by Peter Schjeldahl, published in 'Richard Deacon', Phaidon Contemporary Artists series, pp. 88-95
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Group_gather_and_start_to_build_new_work_by_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Text by Francis Gooding in the catalogue published at the occasion of RD solo exhibition 'Association' at the Lisson Gallery, London, 11 May - 23 June 2012
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Richard_Deacon_Talking_About_For_Those_Who_Have_Ears_No._2.pdf
The publication is based on an interview between RD and Richard Francis of May 1985 and was printed by the Patrons of New Art to celebrate their gift of 'For Those Who Have Ears #2' to the Tate Gallery
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Splendid_Isolation.pdf
Text written by Michel Enrici, published in the catalogue 'Richard Deacon: The Back of My Hand I - V Other Men's Eyes I' at the occasion of Richard Deacon solo show at the Galerie ARLOGOS, 13 December 1986 - 17 January 1987
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Making_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Article published in Q-P magazine in Autumn 2022 on pp. 48-55
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The Museum in Motion
Musée d’art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de RochechouartPlace du Château, 87600 Rochechouart, France
1 March - 13 December 2026
Group exhibition featuring works from the Collection
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Reading_A_propos_de_Toni_Grand.pdf
First published in a catalogue to accompany the exhibition: 'Toni Grand', Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 18 January - 13 March 1994 and Camden Arts Centre, London, 24 June - 14 August 1994
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Between_The_Two_Of_Us.pdf
Text by Julian Heynen for the catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition:
'Richard Deacon. The Missing Part', Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg & Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg 4 June - 26 September 2010
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Eight_Concepts_Eight_Questions_Eight_Replies.pdf
First published in catalogue ‘Richard Deacon, Border Traffic’, Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France 2008
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Interview_with_Jacopo_Benci_and_Domenico_Scuderi.pdf
Published in Opening #21 December 1993, anno VII Italian/English text pp.8/9
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Richard_Deacon_Sculpture_amongst_the_Fabricators.pdf
Text written by Jon Wood for the catalogue: 'Richard Deacon. On The Other Side', Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 24.8.–15.11.2015, pp. 90-127
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Biography.pdf Selected_Bibliography.pdf
Richard Deacon
Born: 15 August 1949, Bangor, Wales
Biography
Richard Deacon studied at Somerset College of Art, Taunton, from 1968-69, St Martins School of Art, London, from 1969-72 and the Royal College of Art, London, from 1974-77. He studied part-time at Chelsea School of Art, London, in 1978.
From 1977-92 Deacon was a visiting lecturer in sculpture at various art schools, principally Central School of Art & Design, London; Chelsea School of Art, London; Sheffield City Polytechnic; Bath Academy of Art; and Winchester School of Art. He was visiting lecturer at Ateliers 63, Haarlem and Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (1989-99), Guest Professor, Hochschule fur Angewande Kunst, Vienna (1995-96) and Guest lecturer, MA Programme, Bezel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, in 1998.
Deacon was Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris 1999 – 2009 and Professor at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf 2009 - 2015.Deacon’s first one-man show was held in 1978 at The Gallery, Brixton, London. This led to a string of solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, notably at the Riverside Studios in 1984, Tate Gallery, London, in 1985, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1988 and at Tate Gallery Liverpool in 1999. An exhibition of his work toured South America in 1996-97. He was one of three artists representing Wales at the 52nd
Bienniale of Art in Venice in 2007. He has exhibited regularly at the Lisson Gallery, London, since 1983; at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, since 1986; at LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles since 1994; at Galerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen since 1999; at Galerie Schulte, Berlin since 2003; at Galerie Ropac, Paris and Salzburg, since 2006. Since 1981 Deacon has participated in many key group exhibitions throughout the world, including the 1983 Sao Paolo Bienniale, the 1985 Carnegie International, the 1989 Sydney Biennial, Dokumenta lX in 1992. A first retrospective of his work, The Missing Part, was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Strasbourg in 2010. A major retrospective was shown at Tate Britain in February 2014 and a ten year survey, On The Other Side, at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2015, this exhibition travelled to the Heyday Alyeev Centre in Baku Azerbaijan in 2015/16 and the Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany 2016. In 2016 Richard Deacon, Drawings & Prints 1968 - 2016, was shown at the Folkwang Museum inEssen concurrently with Under The Weather, an installation of new work, at the Thomas Schütte Skulpturstiftung in Neuss, Germany. In 2017 he made his first comprehensive museum exhibition in the USA, What You See Is What You Get at the Museum of Fine Art in San Diego California. Also in 2017, Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium mounted a show (Some Time) celebrating the restoration of a major work - Never Mind 1993 and putting it in the context of various other works by Deacon.
2017 also saw Deacon making his first show in Prague, Free Assembly, a large exhibition in the City Library and Art Gallery with accompanying catalogue.Richard Deacon – In Between, a 90’ film by Claudia Schmidt was released in 2014.
His first public commission, Between The Eyes, was installed in Toronto, Canada in 1990. Since then he has completed commissioned works in New Zealand, Germany, France, Austria, United Kingdom, Spain, Holland, China, Singapore, the USA, Norway, Switzerland and Japan. Grove 2015, the most recent of these commissions was installed in 2016 for the Mitsubishi Development Corporation at Otemachi Station in Tokyo.
Since the beginning of the 1970s, Richard Deacon has written extensively on his own practice and in relation to contemporary art and ideas. A selected collection - So, And, If, But; Writings 1970 – 2012 was published in 2014.
Richard Deacon won the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, in 1987. In 1995 he was awarded the Robert Jacobsen Prize by Stiftung Würth. In 2013 he received Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award and, in 2013, the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture, in Heilbronn, Germany 2017.
In 1998 he was elected a Royal Academician and, in 2010, elected a member of the Akademie Der Kunst in Berlin.
In 1997 he was awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France. Deacon was made CBE in 1999. In 2005 the University of Leicester awarded him an honorary doctorate. He was made an Honorary Fellow, University of the Arts, London in 2013 and elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg 2015 and made an Honorary Fellow, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth 2017.
Richard Deacon lives and works in London.
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Camera.pdf
First published in 'Richard Deacon: Missing Part', ext. cat. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg & Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg 4 June - 26 September 2010, Sprengel Museum Hannover 23 January - 15 May 2011, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2010, pp. 80-83
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Interference.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Stuff_Box_Object.pdf
First published, 'Richard Deacon, Stuff, Box, Object 1971/2', Cardiff: Chapter 1984
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Seeing_Things_Differently.pdf
First published in 'British Museum Magazine', Number 51, Spring 2005, p.5
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Richard_Deacon_interviewed_by_Patricia_Bickers.pdf
The interview took place on April 10 and September 10, 1992
Published in Art Monthly, October 1992, 160, pp. 3-7, in Talking Art 1. Art Monthly interviews with artists since 1976, pp. 366-372 (ISBN 978-1905464562), published in 2013 by Ridinghouse -
Localised_Changes_of_Condition.pdf
First published in a catalogue: Garth Evans Sculpture. Beneath the Skin, exh. cat. Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 23 March - 27 May 2013, London: Philip Wilson Publishers 2013, pp. 35-43
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Taking_Illogical_Ideas_to_their_Logical_Conclusion.pdf
Text written by Liam Gillick, published in a catalogue: 'New World Order / Richard Deacon', Tate Liverpool, 20 February - 16 May 1999, p. 73
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Sculpture__National_Identity.pdf
First published in Link, Artists Newsheet #45 Aug/Sept 1985 pp 17-18
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Interview_Richard_Deacon_-_Werner_Leupin.pdf
Published only in German translation.
The catalogue has been published to commemorate the installation of the sculpture 'No Stone Unturned' in situ and also the accompanying exhibition in the Klein Galerie Kunstkeller, Liestal, 10 - 26 June 1999
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No._21.pdf
Text written by Jean de Loisy, published in a catalogue 'Richard Deacon. Art For Other People', Musée d'art moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille: Villeneuve d'Ascq. France, 16 May - 26 July 1992, pp. 58-59
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Judd-Like.pdf
A version of this essay was first given as a talk in the ‘Artists On Art’ series at the DIA Center for the Arts, New York on January 31, 2005.
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Richard_Deacon_in_conversation_with_Jon_Thomson.pdf
The conversation has been published in lo Spazio Umano, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Umane Arte e Letteratura N.3 July-September 1985, pp. 25-27 (English version) and pp. 29-31 (Italian version)
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Some_Notes_on_Public_Projects.pdf
First published in 'Carnet de la Commande Publique: Richard Deacon', Editions du Regard: Paris, 1992
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The_Missing_Part.pdf
Talk, given on the 17 November 2010 at the Museo de Navarra as part of the series 'Escultores sobre escultura' presented by Cátedra Jorge Oteiza; Richard Deacon, Por Escrito 1970-2010, trans. Gabriel Insausti, Pamplona: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Cátedra Jorge Oteiza, 2012, pp. 371-415 (in Spanish)
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In_Between._Julian_Heynen_interviews_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Interview in the exhibition catalogue 'Richard Deacon' at the Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, 1991 and published in the first volume, Haus Esters catalogue.
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The_Face_of_Things.pdf
The essay written by Michael Newman first appeared in the exhibition catalogue 'Richard Deacon: Sculpture 1980 - 1984 at the Fruitmarket Gallery that toured to Le Nouveau Musée (pp.33-45).
Reprinted in the exhibition catalogue 'Richard Deacon' , The Carnegie Museum of Art: Pittsburgh, 1988, pp.30-57.
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Out_of_the_Woods.pdf
First published in a series of: 'A New World is A New Mind' by White Wine Press No.11 and Distrito 4
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Richard_Deacon_and_Lewis_Biggs_in_conversation_16.11.98.pdf
Conversation published in a catalogue 'New World Order', Tate Publishing, 1999
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Custom_Made._Looking_at_Some_Sculptures_by_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Text written by Dieter Schwarz for the catalogue: 'Richard Deacon. On The Other Side', Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 24.8.–15.11.2015, pp. 11-44
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Isabel_Parkes_Interviews_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Interview for the Sammlung Hoffmann 2013-2015, The interview with RD published on pp. 2-19 and also published in Passagen XVII on pp. 77-81, took place on September 24th, 2014 in RD studio in London
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In_Praise_of_Television.pdf
Text under the title: 'In praise of television. Television and representation' has been published in English and French, illustrated by two images: 'The Oldest Woman In The World?' from the Israel Museum and 'Cosmic anistropy telescope', Image showing ripples in the background radiation left after the big bang. In effect this is an image of the universe beginning to form.
First published by Association des Amis du Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, 1998
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Susan_Daniel-McElroy_Interview_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Interview with RD by Susan Daniel-McElroy published in 'Richard Deacon Out Of Order', The exhibition booklet to accompany the exhibition: Richard Deacon 'Out Of Order'
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Interview_with_Marjetica_Potrč.pdf
Published in the Slovenian Journal M’ARS, Casopis Moderne Galerie Ljubljana, Vol. 11 issue 4 Summer 1990, pp 41 – 48.
The same interview was also reprinted in Kunst & Museum journaal, Volume 4, Number 3 1992, pp. 11 - 16 -
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To_My_Face.pdf
First published in the the catalogue 'Schlaf der Vernunft', Museum Fridericianum, 1988, p. 49
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Requisite_Variety.pdf
First published in a catalogue: 'New World Order / Richard Deacon', Tate Liverpool, 20 February - 16 May 1999, p.11
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Ian_McKeever_and_Richard_Deacon_in_conversation.pdf
The text has been published in a book: 'Artists' Laboratory 01 Ian McKeever RA. Hartgrove Paintings and Photographs', pp. 28-35 at the occasion of the exhibition under the same title, Royal Academy of Arts, 8 September - 24 October 2010
Text (translated into German alongside English version) has been reprinted in the catalogue published at the occasion of an exhibition: Ian McKeever. Hartgrove. Malerei und Fotografie. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop. 3.6 - 2.9.2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-250-9, pp. 130-144
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In_the_Studio.pdf
Essay by Teresa Gleadowe published on pp. 116-117
Exhibition catalogue (Modern Artists series) published on the occasion of RD exhibition at Tate Britain, 5 February - 27 April 2014 -
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Uhmm._Mark_Francis_talks_to_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Interview appears in a booklet that has been published at the occasion of the exhibition week 29: 7-12 August 2000 as part of fig.1 which was developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling. The idea was 50 projects in 50 weeks.
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Beauty_And_Beast.pdf
Text written by Dawn Ades, published in a catalogue: 'Richard Deacon Esculturas 1984-95' to coincide with the touring show in South America and Central America organised by The British Council
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What_a_Car.pdf
A conversation between Lynne Cooke - Richard Deacon that spams between February and April 1992 relating to the commission of 'Between Fiction And Fact' and discussion about public sculpture and memorials, reprinted in 'Carnet de la Commande Publique: Richard Deacon', Editions du Regard: Paris, 1992, pp.9-24 [English translation: pp.75-79].
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Out_Of_Order.pdf
The text by Clarrie Wallis published in the catalogue to accompany the exhibition: Richard Deacon 'Out Of Order', 14 May - 25 September 2005, Tate St Ives, St Ives, England, pp. 24-31
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Undetermined_Pleasure_and_Unnecessary_Beauty.pdf
Interview with RD by Ian Tromp, Published in 'Sculpture', November 1999 Vol. 19 No. 9, pp. 16-23
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Pier_Luigi_Tazzi_in_Conversation_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
Conversation appears on pp. 88-94 in the catalogue '10 Intensità in Europa'
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Room_1.pdf
This text has two parts. The first is a description of a domestic room in the third person which focusses on the objects and material nature of the space. The second part is written in the first person and describes how the narrator inhabits space through everyday actions and a trip to see a Constable exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
First published in 'Richard Deacon: Missing Part', ext. cat. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg & Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg 4 June - 26 September 2010, Sprengel Museum Hannover 23 January - 15 May 2011, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2010, pp. 80-83
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For_Want_of_a_Nail.pdf
First given as a talk at Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales, February, 2007, published in 'Richard Deacon: Artists from Wales at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia', ext. cat. Biennale di Venezia, 10 June - 21 November 2007
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Placement.pdf
First published in '100 Jahre Galerieverein. Freunde des Kunstmuseums Witerthur 1913-2013', p.77-78
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Three_Days_on_the_River.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Observations_on_a_Painting_by_Nicholas_Poussin.pdf
This essay takes 'Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake' by Poussin as a subject.
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Silence_Exile_Cunning.pdf
This essay, written in 1977-78, was first published as Section A of a four part essay under the same title in the catalogue to the exhibition ‘Richard Deacon’ at The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh May – September 1988. Sections B,C & D were separately published, in reverse order, by the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht under the title ‘Metal & Wood’
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Bamako.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Walking_in_Somerset._27_June_1976.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Custom_Made.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Richard_Deacon_in_conversation_with_Pier_Luigi_Tazzi.pdf
The conversation took place in October 1994 in Turin and other locations and has been published in 'Press Play. Contemporary artists in conversation' published by Phaidon in 2005
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Richard_Deacon_-_drawing.pdf
Text by Julian Heynen in the catalogue published at the occasion of an exhibition; Richard Deacon. Out Of Line. Drawings and Prints 1968 - 2016, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 26 August - 13 November 2016
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Metal_and_Wood.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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What_You_See_Is_What_You_Get.pdf
Text was originally written by RD between June 1992 - May 1994 and first published in a catalogue 'One Step Two Step', Nordhorn 1994, p. 66-74
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Art_For_Other_People.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970-2012, Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Richter/Fey Publisher, 2014, p. 97-99
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Object_Lessons.pdf
Essay by Lynne Cooke on the 'Art For Other People' series in the 'Richard Deacon', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1988 exhibition catalogue.
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Small_Talk.pdf
Text written by Lewis Biggs, published in a catalogue: 'New World Order / Richard Deacon', Tate Liverpool, 20 February - 16 May 1999, p. 65
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Living_in_a_Material_World.pdf
First published in Richard Deacon. So, And, If, But. Writings 1970 - 2012, Edited by Dieter Schwartz, 2014, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Richter/Fey
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Richard_Cork_interview_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
An Interview with RD from 1989 published on pp. 134-141 in 'Face to Face: Interviews with Artists'
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The_Word_Made_Sculpture.pdf
The interview with RD by Lewis Biggs was published in the Tate, the Art Magazine, issue 17/spring 1999, pp. 64-68
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In_the_Garden.pdf
The lecture published in the book has been delivered at the Louvre Auditorium on April 20th 2007 on the occasion of RD's participation in the 'Counterpoint III' exhibition at the museum, curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac.
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Brendan_Davis_interview_with_Richard_Deacon.pdf
This oral history transcript is the result of a digitally recorded interview with Richard Deacon on May 19, 2010. The interview took place over the telephone between Berlin and London. Brendan Davis conducted this interview for Art Interview ONLINE Magazine. Max Staley and Peter Reiling wrote the introductory text at the beginning of this interview.
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Richard_Deacon_The_Shape_of_Utopia.pdf
Text by Enrique Juncosa published in the catalogue at the occasion of Richard Deacon show at CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, 14 December 2012 - 10 March 2013, p. 14-22
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Tate Britain is delighted to present a major exhibition of the Turner Prize winnerRichard Deacon, a leading British sculptor, best known for his large, lyrical open forms. In a career spanning more than four decades, Richard Deacon has employed materials ranging from laminated wood and polycarbonate to leather, cloth and clay, examples of which are included in the exhibition. He works on both domestic and large scales, combining organic forms with elements of engineering. His continuously changing methods of construction are a result of developments in his sculptural approach, reflected by his use of sinuous bent wood, contorted steel and highly glazed ceramics. This exhibition at Tate Britain highlights Deacon’s interest in materials and their manipulation, as in After 1998, a large wooden work where the continuous and looping form balances volume and space. Also included are works from the small scale but materially rich series Art for Other People 1982– , that explore the notion of contemporary art being owned and enjoyed by anyone. Of particular note are Deacon’s early drawings It’s Orpheus When There’s Singing 1978: a suite of drawings built up from complex compound curves that influenced the organic forms of much of his subsequent sculpture, and the large, sixty-part, green ceramic sculpture Fold 2012. Throughout his career Deacon has placed as much emphasis on language as he does on materiality. This reflects a deep-rooted interest that stems from his reading of poetic, philosophical and other texts. Like his infinitely varied and continually evolving work – represented in Tate Britain’s Linbury Galleries by some 34 examples – Deacon cannot himself be pinned down to one style or subject matter. Only the principles of draughtsmanship and an emphasis on hands-on experimentation are constants throughout his career, while in that time he has also been lauded as a distinguished writer and educator. This exhibition is curated by Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Modern & Contemporary British Art with Sofia Karamani, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art. It will be accompanied by a major book on the artist by Clarrie Wallis and a programme of talks and events in the gallery.
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The_Tone_of_Labor.pdf
This essay written by Peter Schjeldahl was first published in the exhibition catalogue 'Richard Deacon' at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 1988 but was untitled. Subsequently it was reprinted in the exhibition catalogue 'Richard Deacon' , The Carnegie Museum of Art: Pittsburgh, 1988, pp.58-71 under the title 'The Tone of Labor'.
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Looking_at_Laurens.pdf
First published in 'Henri Laurens - Retrospective', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 12 December 1992 - 12 April 1993, pp. 84-87
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Jacqui_Poncelet.pdf
First published in the catalogue ‘Jacqui Poncelet – New Ceramics’, Crafts Council Gallery, UK, 1981
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19_October__13_November_1970.pdf
This text describes the actions of the performance 'Performer / Assistant / Observer' and is an integral part of the work. It also was one of the five essays made as a work for RD's Diploma Show.
30 copies, duplicated, 1972
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Toys_R_Us.pdf
First published in a magazine Process in-situ, 2016 on pp. 11-15
This essay was written 15 years ago, in June 2001, before the advent of social networks and smartphones. RD has edited it but not changed the argument. This is the first publication.
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