'He was a pure artist': Robert Klippel's junkyard sculptures return to the spotlight

The internationally acclaimed Modernist was never a household name in Australia – but a new exhibition of his work aims to change that
Material and form were everything to the Australian artist Robert Klippel; whether he was carving in wood, creating assemblages out of metal or creating dizzyingly intricate collages, he tapped into an alphabet, or visual grammar, of his own devising.“His ‘language of forms’ looks at natural history and science to understand how things are