Catalogue Raisonné. Pyramid Ia
Pyramid Ia
Catalogue No. 292
Artist's CR 282
1971
Kinkell
Polished steel, marble base
26 x 29 x13.5 inches / 66 x 74 x34 cm
Collection: Private collection
- Gerald Laing and Alasdair Hamilton, 1971: Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1971
- William Peterson, 'Gerald Laing', Artspace, Winter 1976–7
The most recent pieces, of which this is an example, differ from past work in several respects. They contain definite sculptural volume. They are usually monochromatic, and consequently they seldom describe painterly volume. They are often symmetrical. I am interested now, perhaps through this symmetry, in creating a sense of completeness within the piece, and then using this sense of wholeness to make in turn a definite location or place - a nodal point as portable and as constant as the sculpture which creates it. Concomitants of this are coherent siting and linking of nodal points, and an instigation of events around them, either personal or general.
1971: Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1971