Tom Carr

The Works

Untitled
1988
109 x 25 x 82 cm
Painted wood

The work consists of five very similar pieces of wood, approximately 25 cm high, curved into a circular segment and fitted one on top of the other. The piece at the top is cut at the ends in the shape of small stair steps.
The material intentionally maintains the rawness of natural wood, altered only by a few layers of light, transparent paint. It seems to want to give the impression of an object made in an archaic past by a human hand that knows geometry and order.

Wall Fragment
1989
27 x 8 x 27 cm
Painted wood

This small work belongs to the same period as the previous one and, as the title indicates, is a remnant, a fragment of those primitive walls of an extinct past to which the artist alludes.

The artist

(Tarragona, 1956)

Carr is fundamentally an artist who seems to need volume; sculptures or installations that are as simple as possible but contain a strong sense of warning to the viewer of the place they are entering. His works bring to mind totems, permanent signs, small or monumental, created to warn those who come across them that they have entered a space where an idea or a way of life is present and inhabits the place.
Over time, his creations have evolved to incorporate cylinders, helicoids or spirals, and polished metal, which are mobile and reflect sunlight. His language has been linked to a constructivist approach.