Turbo

Artist Tony Cragg (English, born 1949)

Fabricator Schmake Dusseldorf (German)

Date2001

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall: 66 7/8 × 66 7/8 × 66 7/8 inches, 1980 lb. (169.86 × 169.86 × 169.86 cm, 898.12 kg)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2001.26.2

SignedStamps: "TC 3/3 SCHMAKE DUSSELDORF"

Edition/State/Proof3/3

On View

Not on view

Collections

Contemporary Art

Terms

DescriptionAn organic sculpture composed of rounded forms suggesting whirling motion. The top element is joined to the lower by a narrow "waist." Although primarily vertical, the sculpture has a tilted axis.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Public Art Fund, Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, May 22, 2001-February 2002, no cat.

Gallery Label

Turbo refers to an energy-generating form like a spinning top or a turbine engine. Tony Cragg explores the tilted form at rest, but its impression is one of intense dynamism. While Turbo is cast in bronze, lending it a machined quality, its form is irregular, as if comprised of discs whirling out of phase. This idiosyncratic play between randomness and logical order characterizes much of Cragg's work.

Provenance

With Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, by 2001;
Purchased from the Marian Goodman Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001.

Published References

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City:

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 124, 238, (repro.).

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