The British Museum
1987
Wood, card, Rohacell, photographic paper, glass, paint, lacquer.
Dimensions various.
Unique / Edition: Unique work.
Three wood and glass encased books stand on an empty glass topped table-vitrine. They contain scale models of three buildings / structures: The British Museum in London, it’s layout in plan with the Round Reading Room at the centre of the building; the interior of The Round Reading Room at The British Museum, showing the readers tables radiating out from the librarians desks and catalogues at the centre of the room, and a foreshortened perspectival model of the interior of a Panopticon prison at Breda in Holland showing the individual cells and access gantries as seen from the gaoler’s position at the centre.
Exhibitions: Bookworks London Centre for Book Arts, New York, and University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA 1987. [cat]. White November, Air Gallery, London 1987-88. [cat].
Catalogues: White November 1987, pub. Langlands & Bell. Langlands & Bell, Works 1986-1989, pub: Interim Art, London; Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt. 1989. Langlands & Bell, Works 1986-1992 (The White Catalogue) pub: Interim Art, London; Luis Campana Galerie, Frankfurt; Valentina Moncada, Rome. 1992 . Langlands & Bell Works 1986-1996, pub: Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 1996.
Collections: Konrad & Gisela Weiss, Cologne & Pittsburg. 1988. The Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA. USA. 2004.
