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John Aiken: About Face

Author: Ed. Liam Kelly
Category: Monograph
Publisher: Orpheus Gallery
Year: 1991
Subject: John Aiken, Orpheus Gallery, Ireland, Sculpture, Installation
Description: John Aiken, who always invited time based intrusions through his sand installations turned, by the end of the decade, to freestanding sculptures in stone and metal. In the work entitled `Return`, a wall piece in purbeck marble and steel, we see the impregnation of marble by steel, wedged gasket tight; a synthetic implant. That idea of impregnation could become implantation in a work such as `Borderline`, which referred to border observation posts in N. Ireland.
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