The exhibition at Hotel Metropole presents a selection of works by contemporary British artist Tony Cragg, created in collaboration with Berengo Studio between 2020 and 2021. Organized in partnership with the Gervasuti Foundation Venice London and Berengo Studio, the exhibition is curated by James Putnam.

Tony Cragg (b. 1949, Liverpool, UK) has been working and exhibiting since 1969. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and has lived in Wuppertal, Germany, since 1977. Cragg participated in documenta 7 and 8, and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1988. That same year, he was awarded the Turner Prize at Tate Gallery, London. His accolades also include the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo (2007), and the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (2017).
He has held professorships at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he also served as Director from 2009 to 2013. Over the decades, Cragg has exhibited extensively in leading museums worldwide, including: Tate Gallery, London (1988); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (1989); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Musée du Louvre, Paris (2011); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2013); Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2016); Boboli Gardens, Florence (2019); MuBE, São Paulo (2019); and Houghton Hall, Norfolk (2021).
Since 2009, Cragg has been working with glass in collaboration with Berengo Studio and has participated in several editions of the GLASSTRESS exhibitions.

Works on display:
1. Spine White, glass, 2020, H53x21x22cm limited edition 8 + 4 Artist proof +1 HC
2. Sensore Device, glass, 2021
3. Sensore Device, glass, 2021, Opera foto 14 H 42x44x23cm One of a kind
4. Untitled, glass, 2021, H43x27x27 cm One of a kind
5. Tang, glass, 2021, H 57x36x21cm One of a kind