Let’s Dance

Let’s Dance brings six large works of art back to the museum after a long time. Some form of movement is discernible in all the works. Most striking is the bright pink sculpture Pompadour by Antony Caro. In this presentation, it is combined with ‘swinging’ sculptures by Richard Deacon and William Tucker, among others.

The composite sculptures of Antony Caro (1924–2013) have an ‘open’, airy and playful appearance. In Pompadour, six square surfaces dance up and down like notes in a stave. The elements seem randomly brought together in a constant suggestion of movement.

Pompadour is combined here with sculptures by artists including Richard Deacon (1949) and William Tucker (1935), students of Caro at St Martin’s School of Art in London. The flowing line of Deacon’s Blind, Deaf and Dumb (A) and Tucker’s rocking ARC also evoke movement. And if you pay close attention, you will see Blechfahne by Reiner Ruthenbeck (1937–2016) gently ‘waving’ on its line.

In addition to the sculptures by Caro, Deacon, Tucker and Ruthenbeck, you will also see work by John McCracken (1934–2011) and Auke de Vries (1937).