Richard Deacon Ikon Gallery Birmingham January 31 to March 18
For the first major public exhibition of Richard Deacon's work in the UK this side of the millennium, 'Personals' is a surprisingly modest and idiosyncratic show. While the gallery spaces are not on the industrial scale often necessitated by the artist's sculptures, the works presented are contemplative, introspective and cautiously inquisitive rather than displaying the assertiveness, resolve and sheer formal ambition ...