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...years, presumably on the theory that it takes at least that much time for things to change. Most prestigious of those conventions are the Venice Biennale (70 years old), Pittsburgh's Carnegie International (69 years old) and the relative newcomer, Brazil's São Paulo Bienal, started...
...time the public gets in for a look, as is happening this week at São Paulo's eighth Bienal, most of the shouting is over. The real convention takes place in the preview week before the opening, when critics, dealers, collectors and artists live exclusively on cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and art-world politics. With 5,000 works from 54 nations spread along some five miles of walls in an Oscar Niemeyer-designed pavilion, Brazil's biennial provides plenty to politic about...
...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 from lava. Through June...
...from his tidy chest of portfolios, went on show in the new quarters of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (see opposite page). Two years ago, few people outside his native Germany had ever heard of Bissier; it took a major prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1961 to establish him abroad as the leading abstractionist of small harmonies...
...shows are rightly suspect when given to some eye-catching novelty by a local unknown-and rightly coveted when given for work that has evolved over years of dedication. It was years of. dedication that last week marked the two top prizewinners among the painters at the Sao Paulo Bienal in Brazil...