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Clive Barker
British, b. 1940

Clive Barker British, b. 1940

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Clive Barker, Chariot, 1974

Clive Barker British, b. 1940

Chariot, 1974
Chrome-plated brass and bronze
19 cm high; 23 cm long
Signed, dated and titled underneath
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Many of Barker’s early 1970s preoccupation with Classical sculpture came about during a trip to the Paris Louvre. Some of his Classical pieces are also testimony to his love of...
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Many of Barker’s early 1970s preoccupation with Classical sculpture came about during a trip to the Paris Louvre. Some of his Classical pieces are also testimony to his love of Surrealism. Barker had met Man Ray at the Hanover Gallery in 1969 and admired Man Ray's disguising of the familiar. In Chariot, Barker uses the the classical winged Spirit of Extacy, symbol of exclusivity, in the unusual context of a cheap popular roller skate. This contrast is unsettling as the meaning of the familiar is manipulated.

Barker’s 1960’s and 1970's works celebrated the instant possibilities and freedoms of a transformed society, embodied in chrome-plated bronze casts of the everyday, the banal or kitsch elements of our culture, often through the use of irony. Barker's choice of materials and their finishes was largely determined by his experience of working with leather and chrome at the Vauxhall Car factory during 1960-61.

A large retropsective of Barker's work dating 1961-1981 is being hosted by the Wolverhampton Art Gallery as of October 2017.
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Provenance

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Exhibitions

1974, Clive Barker: Heads and Chariots, Anthony d'Offay, London, cat. no. 5

1976, Small is Beautiful. Part 2: Sculpture, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, cat. no. 6

1981-82, Clive Barker: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints (retrospective exhibition), Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and tour, cat. no. 38

2008, 25 Years of Post-War British Art 1952 - 1976, Paisnel Gallery, London

2011, Snap, Crackle and Pop: British Pop Art, The Lightbox, Woking.

Literature

A.J. FERMON & M. LIVINGSTONE. Clive Barker. Sculpture. Catalogue raisonné 1958- 2000. Milan, 2002, cat. no.154, ill. p.114

Guy PORTELLI, Modern British Sculpture, Schiffer Pubblishing, 2005, ill. p.104 and back cover

25 Years of Post-War British Art 1952 - 1976, exhibition catalogue, Paisnel Gallery, London, 2008, ill.

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