Tony Cragg's 'Pensiero dinamico' at MUDAM Luxembourg

The MUDAM in Luxembourg City is hosting a solo exhibition of British sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949 in Liverpool) titled 'Pensiero dinamico' (Dynamic Thought), running until September 3, 2017. The show, housed in the fortress museum designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, presents works divided into two groups: 'Early Forms' and 'Rational Beings,' reflecting different fabrication processes. 'Early Forms' shows influences from Cragg's early work in glass and rubber manufacturing, featuring deformations like stretching and revolution. 'Rational Beings' emphasizes layering and superposition, with visible laminate thickness. Central to Cragg's practice is the relationship between material and force, exploring how movement alters morphology and surfaces. Works like 'Points of View' (2015) suggest columns tormented by wind, achieving a new unstable equilibrium. The artist describes his creative process as building an internal structure that generates the final form, avoiding accidental abstraction. The exhibition aims to reveal how Cragg's forms evolve, focusing on movement as a relative concept. Cragg's form-finding strategy predates parametric architecture and digital generative design, liberating tradition from conventional banality by imitating nature's evolutionary rules.