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...some Rocky Horror fans may derive security from the show, wacky characters and all, Agostini suggests. "Some people need the stability of seeing the same people again. It's a lot like a club. We know each other very well...
...artist is judged by the company his work keeps, Peter Agostini is a pop sculptor. At the current sculpture exhibition in Manhattan's Jewish Museum, Agostini's plaster popovers are on show across from George Segal's plaster mummies. All summer long, some of his clustered plaster balloons hung, like monster grapes for a superbacchanalia, outside the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair next to Robert Indiana's EAT sign, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon, and Jim Rosenquist's billboard...
...neither by temperament, background nor age does Agostini count himself among pop artists. At 51, he can remember working for the WPA and showing on Manhattan's 10th Street when it was still the center of the avantgarde. Brought up as a poor Hell's Kitchen kid, he recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. More contemporary sculpture, here limited to seven Americans: Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz and George Sugarman. Through...
...addition to sculpture shows in these listings: Pol Bury at Lefebre, Marina Nuñez del Prado at World House (both through Nov. 7), David Smith at Marlborough-Gerson, George Rickey at Staempfli, Horst-Egon Kalinowski at Cordier & Ekstrom (all through Nov. 14), and Peter Agostini at Radich, 818 Madison Ave. at 68th (through...