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Book: Berlin

Artist Gavin Scobie (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1940 - 2012)

Date1977

Mediumcorten steel (waxed)

ClassificationsSculptures

DimensionsOverall: Height: 17 cm, Width: 40.5 cm
Closed: Depth: 50 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1993 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG010702

Keywords

About MeThis work was completed after a visit to Berlin where Scobie saw an exhibition on the Surrealist movement, Dada. The artist writes; "I found this very interesting; not the politics or the theory, but the objects and writings themselves which seemed to compliment the pervading sense of poetic tension which was characteristic of the then divided city. I always had an interest in the work of Kurt Schwitters (which was well represented in the Berlin exhibition,) and since I had started work on a book of sculpture just prior to my visit, I decided to include extracts from the number poems and from the phonetic poem 'Orsonate' in the work."
This lettering has been chemically patinated into the surfaces of 'Book Berlin.'
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Edinburgh born Scobie completed this after a visit to a Berlin exhibition of Dada. Extracts of Kurt Schwitter's poetry are chemically patinated onto the surface