Sotheby's annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture to open on 9th September

KOLKATA: Beyond Limits, Sotheby's annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, opens on Monday 9th September, with a collection of landmark works by artists as diverse as Marc Quinn, Tony Cragg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Manolo Valdes, Allen Jones and Thomas Heatherwick, the British designer who created the celebrated Olympic Cauldron for London 2012.

Creating a dialogue with the historic garden at Chatsworth, Beyond Limits provides collectors and the public with the exciting and rare opportunity to see these 20 large-scale works, as their artists' intended - juxtaposed against the natural landscape. This year's exhibits are notable for their exciting range of materials - from the traditional, such as bronze and stone, to fibre-glass, aluminium, steel and acrylic. The extraordinary diversity of these works represents some of the most original and thrilling monumental sculpture being made today.

Commenting on this year's line-up for Beyond Limits, Alexander Platon, Sotheby's head of private sales, Europe said in an email statement: ""This is an exciting time for monumental sculpture. The market for these dramatic outdoor works of art is becoming increasingly global, with buyers from Asia, Russia and the Middle East now collecting in this sphere. There is no better setting in the world than the historic garden at Chatsworth, where, this year, we are delighted to showcase a stellar group of works by some of the world's leading contemporary sculptors.""