Work No.1105 2011 consists of five thick horizontal rectangular strokes of dark red acrylic paint applied across a commercially prepared and unframed canvas. The bands of paint appear as though they are stacked on top of each other, and narrow incrementally in width from bottom to top so as to form a ziggurat shape. The bottom stroke spans the entire width of the canvas. All of the white ground has been left exposed around the painted shape. The colour has been applied from left to right in a single layer of uniform thickness, with a set of flat brushes reducing in breadth from bottom to top (16 cm, 10.5 cm, 9 cm, 7.5 cm and 5 cm). The artist’s signature and the date (‘Martin Creed 2011’) is written in pencil on the reverse bottom edge of the c...
