Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER LANYON-Viviano, 42 East 57th. "If you go to St. Ives you will notice the blue," says Lanyon of his English birthplace and home, and if you go to see his paintings you will too. Lanyon likes to float low in his glider, a vantage point that wins him curious perspectives: Lake looks like a rubber life raft filled with water, North East seems to offer a view right through a terrace table, and Spring Coast is a maze of curves and curlicues in phosphorescent green and fresh red. Through...
CONSAGRA AND FRIENDS-Odyssia, 41 East 57th. Five contemporary Italians wear the mantle of their rich sculptural heritage with distinction. Pietro Consagra, winner of the 1960 Venice Biennale's International Sculpture Award, carves "colloquies" in slabs of stainless steel and wood. Alberto Viani smoothes sweeping surfaces to an Arp-like elegance. Quinto Ghermandi coaxes bronze until it is as fragile as a leaf. Francesco Somaini, Best Foreign Sculptor in Sao Paulo's 1959 Bienal. makes magnificent metal meteorites both rugged and grand. Leoncillo bakes gres (a clay mixture) until his solder-colored shapes look as if they sprung...
HUGH TOWNLEY-Pace, 9 West 57th. A Brown University art professor nails together all kinds of wood (walnut, oak, mahogany, cherry, maple, rosewood) and, with whalebone and horn, exploits the different shapes, grains and tones to endow his abstract anomalies with a curious vitality. Says he: "I want a thing that provokes and tantalizes and satisfies ... a bitchy piece of sculpture that lives." On view: 15 such pieces in relief and in the round. Through...
WORLD'S FAIR ARTISTS-Parsons, 24 West 57th. Sculpture and paintings of ten U.S. artists whose murals adorn the exterior of the New York State Pavilion: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Chamberlain, Kelly, Liberman, Indiana, Warhol, Rosenquist, Agostini, Mallary. Through...
GEORGE ORTMAN-Wise, 50 West 57th. In "illuminations" and painting constructions, Ortman juggles signs and symbols into colorful allegories. Also drawings, prints, sculpture. Through...