One of Britain's most celebrated living sculptors, Caro's work challenges conventional ideas about materials, surface, scale, form and space. In the early 1960s, he began to create sculptures from steel elements salvaged from scrap yards. Assembling the industrial shapes into sculptures that are both abstract and pared down to their most basic elements, Caro often painted them a single color in order to unify the disparate parts. "All I want to do is to give vitality to the form," Caro has said. "I do not intend to break with the past, but to stay vital, sculpture needs to be reinvented again and again." Reflecting Caro's interest in the immediate, physical presence of sculpture, Kasser is a simple example in which the edges and planes of the painted metal quietly define space.

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