| 理查德•迪肯（Richard Deacon）
(1984年获“透纳奖”提名，1987年获得“透纳奖”)
生于1949年
威尔士雕塑家。1980年，他开始创作一系列金属和木头薄板的简单机体形状，表面与结构相一致。迪肯认为他自己是一个制作者，而不是一个建造者，他利用未经加工成型的基本材料制作雕塑，通过比喻的方法来探索语言和感觉决定的人类体验。虽然迪肯创造的形状从表面看来是抽象的，但是他却通过富有含义的命名来体现作品对身体的比喻和收集信息的方法，例如《亲眼所见（The Eye Has It）》”（1984，伦敦，ACGB；见于England, fig. 34）。迪肯不断拓宽他的语言表达和选取材料的范围，例如，在“《男孩和女孩（Boys and Girls）》”（1982，伦敦，英国文化协会）中加入了乙烯树脂和层压木板。他由此创造了更深刻更复杂的比喻含义，形成了极为灵活多变的个人风格。
Richard Deacon
(nominated for Turner Prize in 1984 / won in 1987)
born 1949
Richard is a Welsh sculptor. In 1980 he began making a series of sheet metal and laminated wood sculptures in simple organic shapes, their surfaces congruent with their structure. Deacon considered himself a fabricator rather than a constructor and used unformed basic material to make sculptures that explored, by the use of metaphor, ideas that defined human experience through language and the senses. Although the forms devised by Deacon were fundamentally abstract in appearance, this metaphorical reference to the body and its methods of gathering information was alluded to in idiomatic titles such as The Eye Has It (1984; London, ACGB; see England, fig. 34). As Deacon widened both his vocabulary and his range of materials, incorporating, for instance, vinyl and plywood into Boys and Girls (1982; London, British Council), so he increased the depth and complexity of metaphor into a highly flexible personal idiom. |
