Modena, Galleria Civica di Modena, Pop Art UK, British Pop Art 1956-1972, 18th April 2004.

An Jo Fermon and Marco Livingstone, Clive Barker: Catalogue Raisonne 1958-2000, Skira Editore, Italy, 2002,  no.30, pp.50 and 84 illustrated.

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Conceived in 1965, the present work is unique.

Barker's position as one of the leading British exponents of pop sculpture has become steadily more recognised, and the body of work that he has produced since the early 1960s has been rema꧋rkably consistent.

His initial experience in the factory environment of Vauxhall Motors meant that it did not seem unnatural to employ the specialist skills of others in the actual fabrication of the works, a 𝓡concept that is common now amongst artists but which meant that his work was not always accepted at the time. The deliberate removal of the artist's involvement in the actual making of the peice was an unusual element in British pop of the period.

These unique early sculptures exemplify the use of chrome, a technique Barker has used throughout his career to introduce and involve the viewer in the work as they find themselves reflected in the hard shiny surfaces. The transformation of object into art object by means of the artist's intervention places Barker close to a number of the major American practitioners, but also shows the links to some of the later artists such as Jeff 🎐Koons.