Richard Deacon Soft cover - 2000

Jon Thompson is a British artist, teacher, writer and curator. He was Head of Fine Arts at Goldsmith's College, London (1970-92) and is currently Head of Fine Art Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands. He co-curated with Greg Hilty the exhibition 'Gravity and Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture' in 1993 at the Hayward Gallery, London.

Pier Luigi Tazzi is an art critic and curator based in Florence. Formerly a lecturer at the University of Florence (1976-89), he has contributed to such art journals as Artforum, Museumjournaal and Wolkenkratzer. Tazzi was among the curators of the 42nd Venice Biennale (1988) and was Associate Director of Documenta 9 (1992).

Peter Schjeldahl is Art Critic for the New Yorker. Scheldjahl has also written for Artforum, Parkett, Art News, Frieze and Art Press. His books include The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings 1978-1990 (1991) and Columns & Catalogues (1994) as well as five books of poetry; his writings have also appeared in the three editions of Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection.

Penelope Curtis is Head of Programmes at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, where she has organized historical contextualizing exhibitions of the work of distinguished late twentieth-century sculptors such as Giuseppe Penone and Michelangelo Pistoletto, as well as exhibitions, commissions and special projects with younger generation sculptors.