Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, R.A. (b. 1924)

The present panel is based on a section of the large Kreuzberg relief (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh), adopting a very similar visual language of shapes. Kreuzberg was preceded by the Cleish Castle ceiling panels of 1972-73, which have now been removed from the castle and installed in the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh.
In the early 1970s Paolozzi had discovered a German magazine illustration of 1927, showing organ music in the form of a patterned composition: this became the basis for his visual vocabulary.

We are very grateful to Fiona Pearson for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.