EXHIBITIONS

After Deacon's participation in Lucerne 1982 in the crucial show "British Sculpture Now" where I discoverd 1981 Richard (see LINK) at the very beginning and followed his progressively increasing oeuvre and it's spacial and material development, his continuous creative evolvement promoted soon the idea of a larger monographic exhibition which became more challenging due to the increasing size of his work. To make it happen with the limited budget of Lucerne, he had to look for partners Kunz found first in the person of Alexander van Grevenstein and later Maria Corral, creating a very collegial and constructive co-production became for a European wide tour.Finally Florent Bex of MUHKA,Antwerp also joint the touring exhibition. Kunz managed also to acquire at the end of this tour for the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne a major sculpture and prints the artists donated other prints and work on paper. (LINK> Museum Collection Lucerne)

Draft: Abstract of Exhibitions curated, produced,co-organized by MK: selected for the K10-Website: Richard Deacon Recent Sculptures 1985 -1987 Dates and locations of the exhibition: Presented at Bonnefanten Museum, Masstricht, 21.11. 1987-24.01.1988 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, 04.02.- 20.03.1988 Fundaçion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, 11.04.1988-29.05.1988 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen , 18.06.- 28.08.1988 Project initiated by Martin Kunz with Richard Deacon and curated and produced together with Alexander van Grevenstein of the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht and by MK of the Kunstmuseum Luzern See the 2 abstracts for the publications produced for this exhibition tour: RICHARD DEACON Recent Sculptures 1985 -1987 and the second publication RICHARD DEACON 1985 -1988 Esculturas y Dibujos / Sculptures and Drawings 1985 – 1988 Abstract of the exhibition: After the first encounter when Martin Kunz discovered on a scouting tour for young British Sculptors in 1981 Richard Deacon in London before he had any any international , not even national exposure. Only exhibited at alternative and college art spaces. He spontaneously invited the artist then, then to be part of a very selective group show presenting the 5 artists [>LINK] ”BRITISH SCULPTURE NOW, [>>>LINKS] Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon , Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, all names the British Council considered then barely known and questionable to support an international show, but in the end gave support as the exhibition was presented in contexts of the prestigious International Festival of Music in the same building at the time called Kunst-und Kongresshaus Luzern (See LINK) After Deacon's participation in Lucerne 1982 was followed by his progressively increasing oeuvre and it's spacial and material development, his continuous creative evolvement promoted soon the idea of a larger monographic exhibition which became more challenging due to the increasing size of his work. To make it happen with the limited budget of Lucerne, he had to look for partners Kunz found first in the person of Alexander van Grevenstein and later Maria Corral. A very collegial and constructive co-production became reality for a European wide tour. Kunz managed also to acquire at the end of this for the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne a major sculpture and prints the artists donated other prints and work on paper. (LINK> Museum Collection Lucerne)