Tanmatras, 1985
Tanmatras, 1985
Basalt with oil
5 elements
305 x 305 x 30 cm
Leeds City Art Galleries
Etruscan II, 1986
Black Indian granite with oil and lamps
150 x 480 x 30 cm
Private Collection, Italy
Domestic Rituals, 1986
Domestic Rituals, 1986
Basalt
average 65 x 70 x 70 cm
Private collection Florence
Brides of Manamai, 1986
Brides of Manamai, 1986
White diorite, silk, bitumen, pigment
450 x 200 x 400 cm
Installation Tate Gallery,
Exhibition Stephen Cox :
South Indian Sculpture
A Thousand Pillared Hall, 1986
A Thousand Pillared Hall, 1986
White diorite with oxides and pigment
270 x 790 x 8 cm
Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst
Aachen, Sammlung Ludwig
photo Tate Gallery
Rock Cut Holy Family, 1986
Rock Cut Holy Family, 1986
Indian Dolerite also known as Charnockite and 'granite'
274 x 426 x 15 cm
Indian Triennale Gold medal
Annunciation, 1986-7
Annunciation, 1986-7
Black Indian Granite with Oil, 2 Elements
400 x 200 x 100 cm (158 x 79 x 39 1/2 inches)
Private Collection, Stockholm
Conjunction, 1987
Conjunction, 1987
Dolerite/basalt
186x60x60cm including base
‘Conjunction' is the coming together of male and female as in the genesis theme in the Ardhanarishvara form of Siva, the cosmic and the temporal.
Studies for Conjunction, 1987, graphite
Kani, 1988
Black Indian granite and cotton cloth of various colours with oil
60 x 500 x 46 cm (23 1/4 x 196 3/4 x 18 inch)
Private Collection
Ganapathi and Devi, 1988
Dolorite
A: 332 x 163 x 105 cm
B: 308 x 127 x 96 cm
Broadgate Properties PLc, London
It’s 5,106 miles from London to the quarries of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India. In 1988, this is where artist Stephen Cox sourced the stone for his monolithic, semi-abstract sculptures, Ganapathi And Devi, which now stand in Broadgate Plaza. Apart-yet-together, these complex works allude to sculptural torsos and ancient themes (Devi is the name of the female Hindu goddess while Ganapathi is the South Indian name for the popular elephant god, Ganesha) fusing the contemporary with the historical.
Vishnu Throng, 1988
Dolorite, with red and white colour and oil
145 x 145 x 7cm
Galleria Carini, Florence
Siva Throng, 1988
Black Indian Granite with Yellow and White colour and oil
145 x 145 x 7 cm
The Artist
Organs of Action, 1988
Black Indian granite with oil
5 elements
Each 186 x 61 x 23 cm
Photographed at the Cass sculpture foundation
Private Collection, UK
Rishi, I, 1989
RISHI I , 1989 Basalt, ( variously: dolerite or black ‘granite’ or Charnockite).
175 x 90 x 45 cm including base
The Rishis are regarded as sages or seers who, after intense meditation, realized the supreme truth and eternal knowledge which they then translated into hymns. Stephen Cox’s sculpture entitled “Rishi I” represents a figure with the minimum intervention made on to the stone itself. The stone, basalt, was taken from a place where some of the oldest stones on the Earth’s surface can be found. It shows the scars and incisions of the quarry men who have used the most primary tools to release the block from its bed, where it has lain since long before the beginning of human recorded time. This act of releasing stones from a primordial era and bringing them into the light of today is central to Cox’s practice, as he strives to understand a universal language of sculpture.