Reference Number:
TE2/1977/4
Michael Craig-Martin – Exhibition Installation 1977 (Part 3)
Additional Information
Exhibition installation. Begins with a cut, a view of the exterior of the Third Eye Centre on Sauchiehall Street. There is no sound that accompanies the image of pedestrians walking past. As the handheld camera moves towards the façade of the building, text on the window reveals the exhibition being shown in the gallery: Michael Craig-Martin. The windows also advertises an artist talk. The camera follows a man in jacket through the front door and into the foyer of the Third Eye Centre. The camera then moves past a reception desk and into the left of 2 open doors. This is access to the Third Eye Centre's main gallery spaces. The camera journeys towards the elongated gallery space at the back end of the building where Craig-Martin's exhibition is being installed. Cuts, pans and zooms then occur in what appears to be a partially darkened space. There is a focus on the neon lighting fixtures on the walls, 3 men working on different aspects of the installation. Some brief tracking issues with the camera allows the sound to finally cut in and out at different intervals, introducing sounds of construction and installation. There is some filming from the top of a ladder looking down onto the space. Ends on a pan and zoom out from a neon-lit arrow on a wall, towards a group of buckets suspended from the ceiling on a wooden platform. A chair and trolley can be seen in the background.