Notes on Location

While this first publication was in some ways fortuitous and as Peter Downsbrough himself notes, the early 1970s were a propitious time for books, it nevertheless coincided with a key moment in the œuvre of the young sculptor, whose work focuses on location and orientation in space. Dissatisfied with the large works in steel he had hitherto produced, and more concerned with structure than material, he set out – initially on paper – the groundwork for what would become a minimal vocabulary, in his sculptures as in his books: the tension between two parallel lines, often coupled with isolated words, divided internally.