Barry Flanagan’s innumerable contributions to and achievements in the history of sculpture, as well as his selection as the representative of Britain at the 40th Venice Biennale in 1982 and his election to the Royal Academy of Arts and recognition with an OBE in 1991, substantiate his position as one of Britain’s most important and innovative sculptors. A leading figure among avant-garde movements from Arte Povera and Land art to Process art and Conceptual art, Flanagan’s decades-long investigation of material and advocacy of French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry’s “science of imaginary solutions” known as ’pataphysics revolutionized the language of sculpture. He debuted his iconic bronze hare sculptures in the 1980s, seamlessly blending the mundane with the imaginary and the fantastic, and monumental examples have since been exhibited in public venues including Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom; Park Avenue, New York; Grant Park, Chicago; O’Connell Street and Parnell Square, Dublin; Union Square, New York; and the Kasmin Sculpture Garden, New York.

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