By Colin Self: 'Figure 1 No.8', one of eleven etchings, prelude to "1,000 Temporary Objects of our Time"

Etching print on paper

Acquired from Editions Alecto, London in 1972.

'This suite of eleven etchings is the prelude to a proposed
collection of “1,000 Temporary Objects of our Time”. The
prelude was produced in 1971, and a leaflet produced as an
information sheet with the set quoted from the artist’s
statement for the Sao Paolo Biennale, 1971, describing his
interest in reproducing ‘objects’ and in the idea of a kind of
census of images of ‘objects’.

The images were produced by placing an object on the etching plate
and spraying over it. When the object is removed, a clean shadow
is left on the plate, which is then etched. Thus the shadow of the
object becomes the inked part of the image. All are printed on
thick white paper. Printer’s stamp on the back. The suite was
published by Editions Alecto, 1971.'

[Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972]

CIRC.61-1972