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With a selection of pieces from the artist's estate, the exhibition analyses Caro's very personal language and his complex relationship with abstraction, whose ultimate aim was to make his sculpture “more real, more felt.”

Right from the beginning of his artistic career, Caro emphasised the need to transcend mere physical presence to convey more complex feelings. After reaching the conclusion that creating figurative images necessarily led to a "pretence", he decided that only non-figurative sculpture could achieve emotion through the manipulation of form, space, colour and …