GERALD LAING

Hijacker

Catalogue raisonné no. 401

Artist's CR 377

Early Summer, 1978

Kinkell

Bronze

Edition of 10

13 x 6.5 x9 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gladstone Court, Edinburgh, 1978
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• Gerald Laing: Bronze Sculpture, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, 1979
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture, Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami, 1982
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• Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1993
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, The Fine Art Society, London, 1999
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• Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 2004
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Literature:
• An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, exhibition catalogue, Gladstone Court, 1978
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• Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, exhibition catalogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1993
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 1999
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Selected Citations and Comments

In the Head of a Hijacker [sic] Laing takes a subject that would have interested Medardo Rosso or the early [Constantin] Brancusi, a female head tied in a nylon stocking which veils and blunts her features. Knotted on top, its foot hangs down in an elegant curve at one side of the face. In producing a classic sculpture by this means, Laing also shows his preferred sources in topical life, as the demure girl hijacker is well-known on the world stage. Unlike Galina 10 [sic], this work has no architectural or iconic quality, but is ‘private’ and must exist only as life-size and in an enclosed space.

Douglas Hall, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, exhibition catalogue, Gladstone Court, Edinburgh, 1978