Fast Particles, 1994

Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. After a scientific education and an early career as a lab technician, he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Art in London. At the beginning of the 1980s, along with Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon, he proved to be one of the main protagonists of the new sculpture in England.

In 1977 he moved to Wuppertal in the industrial zone of the German Ruhr, where he began working on sculptures created from discarded objects like pieces of wood and, to a greater extent, plastic scraps. This urban refuse of plates, bottles, vases, and toys was chosen and sorted according to the objects' colors and shapes and then placed on the floor or attached to walls like industrial rainbows.