Bernier/Eliades

Opening: Thursday, 10 September 2026, 17:00 - 21:00
Exhibition duration until 19 December 2026
Bernier/Eliades is pleased to announce the representation of Tony Cragg in Belgium and in Greece. On this occasion, the gallery in Brussels presents SYMMETRIES, a solo exhibition by Tony Cragg featuring a new series of works. 

Renowned for his visionary approach to sculpture, Tony Cragg emerged in the late 1970s with assemblages made from found materials before developing a distinctive sculptural language combining natural and synthetic elements, cumulative and sedimented forms, and a sustained investigation of intersections of body, materiality, object, and space. Working across bronze, wood, steel, and composite media, his virtuosic handling of materials in fresh ways explores the expressive potential of materiality and how form evolves through processes of tension, balance, and continuous reconfiguration.

In this exhibition, Cragg approaches symmetry not as a static principle of reflection or order but as a generative condition within sculptural thinking, moving beyond the confines of the organic and utilitarian spheres. Symmetry appears here as something unstable, unpredictable, and active, produced through shifting relations between mass and void, repetition and deviation, structure and deformation. Rather than fixed equilibrium, the works suggest systems in constant negotiation, where balance is achieved through movement and transformation, conveying fluidity of layered shapes and intersecting axes.

The self-described radical materialist approaches form with a minimalist and almost mathematical structural logic, manipulating matter into molten-like dynamic sculptures, balancing abstraction and figuration, strength and fluidity, stillness and movement, precision and distortion. The result of the combination of rationality and dream-like thought is gravity-defying silhouettes that transcend the merely visual, inviting an exploration of the previously unimagined.

Tony Cragg (b. 1949, UK) lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany. 
 
Tony Cragg
SYMMETRIES
The Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 - 18:00