GERALD LAING

Follow Me

Catalogue raisonné no. 209

Artist's CR 201

August / September, 1967

London and New York

Lacquered aluminium and chrome on brass, formica-veneered plywood boxes, 3 parts

unit 1: 24 x 33.5 x 11.5; x unit 2: 24 x 44; xunit 3: 24 x 33.5 x 11.5 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY, 1968
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• Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983
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Literature:
• R.S., 'Gerald Laing', Arts Magazine, May
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• Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 1983
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Selected Citations and Comments

Alas, my idealised abstractions, designed to fit into a perfect world, often found themselves in uneasy juxtaposition with mundane reality in the form of lightswitches, skirting boards, carpets of an unfortunate colour or design, and other concomitants of the domestic environment. So I created perfect spaces in which my perfectly finished and idealised abstractions could dwell uncorrupt. Some of these boxes or frames were designed to go round corners, as in this example.

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