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Glass wall from 'Spaghetti Alle Vongole Twice' (© The artist)
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Glass wall from 'Spaghetti Alle Vongole Twice' (© The artist) Glass wall from 'Spaghetti Alle Vongole Twice' (© The artist) Glass wall from 'Spaghetti Alle Vongole Twice' (© The artist)

Glass wall from 'Spaghetti Alle Vongole Twice'

Artist: Bruce McLean (born 1944)

Location: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Date: 1994

Materials: glass

Dimensions: various dimensions, each panel circa 277.6 x 119.4 x 1.2cm

Gift:

Review number: 4633 (2006)

Provenance:
The artist; collection of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Description:
A series of 32 large double-sided glass panels commissioned by Credit Suisse in 1994 as part of an installation for the company's staff restaurant at Canary Wharf. They were originally displayed as a 30m-long glass wall. The panels depict people eating, drinking and conversing in a bold, graphic style set against bright monochrome colours. The linear designs were created by drawing onto the sheets of glass with tape, before sandblasting the glass.

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