Author Description

The formal language of lines and planes, superseding the language of volume and mass, substituting for the bump and hollow of traditional sculpture this was the fabulous legacy of cubism to twentieth-century sculpture. Michael Buzacott is one of the more inventive and idiosyncratic contemporary sculptors who continue to work in this tradition. His work has kept the language of cubism exceptionally fresh and vital. While the basis of Buzacott's constructions is freewheeling and abstract, there is ultimately a figurative rationale to his work. This survey exhibition reveals how the playful, speculative formalism of post-Caro sculpture can be reconciled with an insistently representational bias.