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Description: lacquered welded brass

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Dimensions: height 160cm., 63in.

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Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art, London

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Exhibited: London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Kenneth and Mary Martin, 1987, no.76, illustrated in colour in the exhibition catalogue, p.93.

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Notes: A unique piece constructed in 1973.

The screw mobiles are perhaps the central element of Martin's oeuvre, allowing the artist to fully exploit the extra dimension of free movement in the pieces, fusing the concerns of space, volume, mathematic systems and chance that appear throughout his work in all mediums.

The use of industrially available metal elements was a feature of the work of many of his contructivist contemporaries, including his wife Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore and Anthony Hill, and fully accords with the ideals of the post-war period and has a number of parallels with architectural practice of the time. However, despite the apparent geometrical regularity of the piece, closer inspection reveals the direct involvement of the artist in the manufacture of the sculpture, thus fusing the ideas of the relationship between geometry and nature that was so much a feature of the post-war British constructivist generation of artists.