Room 12:  Millbank Steps 2004 Installation shot at Tate Enlarge image

This is Caro's most recent work, commissioned especially for this exhibition. It continues his exploration of the dialogue between sculpture and architecture; here he probes the boundary between the two disciplines. Its internal spaces invite physical occupation and, indeed, it suggests a building: its step formation resembles a ziggurat. At the same time, the structure is clearly non-functional: a sculpture that draws close to architecture but remains separate, rooted in imagination and the free expression of feeling.

See also The Making of Millbank Steps.

Millbank Steps 2004 Courtesy the artist. © The artist, Barford Sculptures Ltd.