LONDON.- Built like a tree, flows like a river is a major sculpture made by Barry Flanagan employing for the last time some of the artistic strategies that had made his reputation as one of the leading sculptors of the1960s and ’70s. The sculpture has been exhibited only once, in France, at the time of its making. Shortly after Flanagan would turn to the subject of hares. Made from cotton fabric and granite, Built like a tree, flows like a river was commissioned for the exhibition Europe 80 in Lyon, which included Mario Merz, Guilio Paoloni, and Bernd and Hilla Becher, amongst others. An overview of the avant-garde in Europe at the beginning of the decade – stressing artistic positions that insisted on independence from a dominant American aesthetic – each of the artists was invited to Lyon to produce a work on-site. Flanagan’s sculpture draws on the geography and history of Lyon, one of only three towns in Europe to be located at the confluence of three rive