Denis Masi - Gymnasium 1978 – 1979

Graphite painted raised wood platform, three theatre profile spot lights no filters, fifty-five raku fired handmade ceramic bricks, one sheet of mirror and one kilo of crushed glass, chrome plated parallel bar 214 cm on two mild steel stove enamelled stands, one leather medicine ball, one 200 watt clear light bulb programmed on a fade pulsar, small tape recorder with built in speaker, tape loop with sounds similar to white noise, one stuffed rat with hood type of mask, atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with the odour of talcum and chlorine.

List Description:

• 1 hooded rat with mask
  
• 3 profile spotlights no filters
  
• 55 handmade ceramic bricks raku fired
  
• 1 eight foot parallel bar on stands
  
• 1 medicine ball
  
• 1 mirror with two pounds of crushed glass
  
• 1 200 watt clear light bulb programmed on a fade pulsar
  
• Tape loop of sounds similar to white noise
  
• Atmosphere in immediate area of construction invested with odour of talcum and chlorine

Exhibition provenance / history:

• ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, Main Gallery, London 1979
• Spectro Arts Workshop, Gallery 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980