Martin Boyce (b. 1967)
Ventilation Grills (Our Breath and This Breeze)

acid etched brass, in five parts
each: 9⅛ x 16¾in. (23.2 x 42.6cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is artist's proof number one from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs

Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas.
Acquired from the above by George Michael in 2009.

Carquefou, Frac des Pays De La Loire, Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, 2006 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour pp. 122-123). This exhibition later travelled to Munster, Westfälischer Kunstverein, This Place is Close and Unfolded, 2008 and Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow, 2008.
Dallas, Light & Sie, Being and Nothingness, 2009.
New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, Memories of the Future, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).

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