Currently on view at Bernier/Eliades Gallery, SYMMETRIES introduces a new series of sculptures by Tony Cragg, probing the shifting relationship between order, movement and material. Opened during Brussels Art Week, the exhibition runs from September 10th to December 19th, 2026, marking the gallery’s representation of Cragg in Belgium and Greece.
Where symmetry begins to move
For Cragg, symmetry is less a formula of perfect reflection than a force in motion. Across the new sculptures, mass and void, repetition and deviation, structure and deformation remain in constant tension. Layered surfaces and intersecting axes create forms that seem to negotiate their own equilibrium, lending movement to seemingly static objects.
The series extends the British sculptor’s longstanding fascination with the expressive potential of matter. Since emerging in the late 1970s with assemblages made from found materials, Cragg has developed a distinct vocabulary spanning bronze, wood, steel and composite media. His sculptures place natural and synthetic forms in dialogue, examining the relationship between the body, the object and the space around it.
In SYMMETRIES, this inquiry takes on an almost mathematical precision. Solid matter becomes fluid, molten-looking structures that hover between abstraction and figuration, control and distortion. Their silhouettes appear highly ordered yet strangely dreamlike, leaving the boundary between structure and movement deliberately elusive.
Cragg has described himself as a “radical materialist”, treating matter not simply as a medium but as a source of thought. His latest sculptures give that philosophy physical form, suggesting that equilibrium can exist without stillness, and that symmetry may emerge through perpetual change.
If you are preparing to visit this exhibition, we suggest you explore how Tony Cragg’s approach to sculpting has evolved from collecting and observing objects to carving, bending and reshaping materials. Read our full conversation with him here.
Photography by MICHAEL RICHTER
