
The central piece of the exhibition, an 18-foot tryptich presenting the outline of a female nude in three poses, in fluorescent orange, red, green and blue, and on its verso coordinated portraits of Louis Riel and the Rolling Stones in similar areas of unvariegated colour, is remarkable in numerous ways. Not the least is that it shows Curnoe working at large-scale installation art in the early 1960s, before the term was coined and long before it entered the Oxford in 1969, and before his Kamikaze painting/sculpture of 1967. As well, this stunning triptych has
