The development of William Tucker’s bronzes since the 1980s was preceded by a fundamental break with his constructivist and minimalist practice, which had secured him a place among radical and avant-garde artists since the early 1960s. After a period studying intensively modernist sculpture and publishing theoretical texts in various art journals, in the mid-1980s, Tucker began to create modelled works in plaster that oscillate between figure and pure form and carry within them the subtle moment of transition from the amorphous mass from which they emerged to “legible” figures.