Peter Hide | |
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| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) Carshalton, Surrey, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Croydon College of Art, Saint Martin's School of Art |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work | "Oddball", "The Conquest of Happiness" |
| Movement | Modern art |
Peter Nicholas Hide (born 15 December 1944, in Carshalton, Surrey) is an English born abstract sculptor.[1] A one-time pupil of Sir Anthony Caro, Hide is best known for upright, large-scale welded sculptures made of heavy, rusted industrial scrap steel.[2][3]
Peter Hide works in the Modernist assembled sculpture tradition begun by Pablo Picasso and continued by David Smith and Anthony Caro, but with an emphasis on weight and pressure unlike his artistic forebears. Like his mentor Caro, Hide's sculptures forsake the plinth, but against Caro's open weightlessness, Hide reclaims mass and the monolith, connecting his work to inspirational sources in Auguste Rodin and Brâncuși. "I think a lot of sculptors," Hide says, "especially those who were taught by Tony Caro, decided deliberately to move as far away as possible so as not to be seen as his disciples. The problem is that if you do that you move away from extremely fertile territory.[4]
- ^ "Peter Hide, A Sculptor's Life," Hagios Press, 2016
- ^ "Peter Hide | Portfolio | 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ^ ""Peter Hide | Biography | 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2011.