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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.

Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation

2001
Bronze
169.9 x 169.9 x 169.9 cm
2001.26.2
Text © The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2020

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