Stephen CoxTondo: We Must Always Turn South 1981

T03356 TONDO: WE MUST ALWAYS TURN SOUTH 1981

Not inscribed
Sant Ambrogia di Verona marble, circular, 26 7/8 × 26 1/4 × 2 7/8 (66.5 × 66.5 × 7) with brass fittings
Purchased from the artist through the Whitechapel Art Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Exh: Stephen Cox, Studio Artre, Milan, October 1981 (no catalogue); British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part 2: Symbol and Imagination 1951–1980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, November 1981–January 1982 (146 as one of ‘Three Tondos’)

This is the first of a series of carvings which Cox intends to make out of all the different types of stone described by Vasari in the technical introduction to his Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors. It was made from ‘Verona Red’ marble and was carved in the workshops of the brothers Bazzica in San Ambrogio di Valpolicella near Verona… (read more)