While the Richard Deacon retrospective has yet to open at the Tate Britain, the exhibition (set to open this February) is already generating buzz.

Richard Dorment of “The Telegraph” chose the Deacon exhibition as a highlight for the coming year:

“The other show of contemporary art I’m most looking forward to is a chronological survey of the work of British sculptor Richard Deacon, whose abstract evocations of organic and natural forms made out of curved and twisted lengths of laminated plywood take the work of Henry Moore and Anthony Caro to another level of complexity. At Tate Britain (February 5 – April 27).”

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Often massive in scale and complex in construction, we are constantly in awe of the sheer materiality of Deacon’s work. See the intricacies involved in constructing one of Deacon’s sculptures in this time-laspe video that documents the installation of his seminal work “Dead Leg,” 2007.