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"For some thirty years, John Chamberlain has cajoled, crushed, melted and embraced the detritus of American consumerism to create, casually and forcefully, sculptures whose provocative beauty is as visually brilliant as it is formally intelligent. Employing means as ordinary as his materials, he has reinvented casting and modelling and liberated them from expressive, technical, and aesthetic restraints...Engaging chance and intuition, he transgressed lavishly the prohibition of colour in sculpture, employing hues that ranged from the virignal to the lurid as major protagonists of sculptural structure" (K. Kertess, 'Colour in the Round and Then Some: John Chamberlain's Work, 1954-1985', John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954-1985, New York 1986, p. 26).