Salvaged steel and a slice of countryside: Caro sculptures on show in Oxfordshire fields

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:00:25 GMT

Visitors can get free peek at works by one of UK’s most significant 20th-century artists and one of his successorsSwifts screech overhead, hares lope along the grassy paths and butterflies flutter in the woodland fringe. There is an orchard; there are chickens, beehives. It seems simply a lovely, if conventional, slice of English countryside – until you happen upon striking sculptures fashioned out of chunks of reclaimed steel or machinery parts salvaged from factories, shipyards and farms.The pieces are the stars of a show called Heavy Metal, which brings together work by one of the UK’s most significant 20th-century artists, Anthony Caro, and one of his successors, James Capper. Continue reading...

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