Richard Deacon, Dead Leg
Tuesday, September 27, 5:30 pm
UNM Art Museum, UNM Center for the Arts
Public Talk / Podcast
Richard Deacon
"The Making of Dead Leg"
The British artist, Richard Deacon (b. 1949, Bangor, Wales) has been an internationally recognized figure in contemporary art since the 1980s when his sculpture was included in four important group exhibitions held in London at the Tate Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the Hayward, and Serpentine galleries.
Richard Deacon’s Dead Leg, 2007, is but one example of his tour-de-force, large-scale sculptures. Made from compressed
2 x 2 foot lengths of oak, bound together by stainless steel couplings, it measures a grand 8 x 28 x 9 feet. For over twenty-four years now, Deacon has collaborated with Matthew Perry to problem-solve the engineering and production of the wooden constructions. Together, they have developed technologies and methods—the coalesced “disallowed combinations” as Deacon put it—that remove any doubt about what is not possible to do with wood.
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