Word: castelli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lichtenstein was touted early as a potential winner; indeed his dealer, Leo Castelli, went hoarse lobbying for him. But then so were Sweden's Oyvind Fahl-strom, who makes pop cutouts, Britain's Sculptor Anthony Caro, who studied with Henry Moore, and Germany's young expressionist Horst Antes, who mashes anatomy into a strudel of bright colors. Actually, in sculpture at least, the laurels were split between two rather conservative choices: Etienne Martin, 53, of France, who was rumored to have received a helping hand from Culture Minister Andre Malraux, and Robert Jacobsen, 54, of Denmark...
...pioneers were at it right up to the end. In Frankfurt, a frontiersman named Timm Ulrichs put himself on view in a glass box, along with his school diploma, vaccination certificate and other personal documents. Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery put on a one-man show titled "Store Fronts," which is all they were: a row of fullscale, blank and well-lighted store fronts made of metal with Plexiglas windows backed by brown wrapping paper. The artist is a 30-year-old Bulgarian escapee from Soviet Realism named Christo, who has lived in New York since...
Manhattan Art Dealer Leo Castelli is one of the biggest boosters of pop art. As if to confound critics who are proclaiming that the boom is already a bust, Castelli in the past fortnight has managed to sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...
...already established himself as a pop hero by exhibiting a stuffed goat, his own bed, and lumps of genuine Fulton Street dirt as art, and picked up the 1964 Venice Biennale's International First Prize for painting with his silk-screen images taken from newsphotos. Last week at Castelli's, Rauschenberg unveiled his latest kick-electronic sculpture. Titled Oracle, it is a series of five disconnected wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet and woof, continuously tuning up and down...
Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...