Author Description

"Primer is a series of 21 drawings that I made in 1973 as a lexicon of the Theory of Sculpture works. I imagined it as a kind of abecedario – a tool used to teach the letters of the alphabet. Some of the sculptures had been made between 1969 and 1972; others were not produced, but were ideas developed here to complete the series. The drawings were to have been made into a book by Flash Art Edizioni, but that project was never realised and the drawings were never shown. Showing these Fontana versions of the Theory of Sculpture works again in London presented the perfect opportunity to show these drawings for the first time"--Simon Lee website (viewed March 2015).