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Catalogue No. 97
Artist's CR 094
July, 1965
London
Stove enamel on aluminium and chrome on steel
100 x 48 inches / 254 x 122 cm
Collection: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
While still based on the skydiver theme, this piece is very formal and utilises its immediate environment to a very high degree. In fact, the actual painted part of the piece becomes almost like a gap between the two stronger open forms either side of it; a gap through which, perhaps, a coloured lining may be glimpsed. If this is accepted, then the reflective depth of the chrome creates another, more mysterious, dimension.
1971: Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1971