Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does use paint. Any other resemblance in the recent works of Enrique Castro-Cid to traditional artmaking is a backward stretch of the imagination. His palette also includes electromagnets, electric eyes, air compressors, motion-picture projectors; his gift is in knowing how to combine them deftly into an esthetic commentary (see opposite page). Says he: "I put all the components together to make a situation that is not predictable...
Bouncing Balls. Since his student days in his native Chile, Castro-Cid's art has thrived on unpredictable influences. While he lived in tropical Central America he painted in hot Fauve colors: "Nature made me get out of myself," he says, "it opened my pores." In Mexico City, he wandered into the anthropological museum. "Suddenly I had pre-Columbian memories that, of course, were impossible for me to have." A series of Fauve paintings of Quetzalcoatl, the brightly plumed serpent god, was the result...
From anthropology, Castro-Cid moved on to anatomy. Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, Harper's Bazaar Cover Model Sylvia, he spent hours peering into musty display cases in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Says he: "My paintings grew to be surrealist abstractions with the hint of skeletal joints expressing patterns of growth." To add motion to them, he made toylike, motor-driven robots. They jousted like a 21st century Punch and Judy show, chased tiny balls with spinning hoops in an electronic version of Alexander Calder's 1926 "Circus...
...continent where revolt, expropriation and inflation are common, Sears since 1960 has lifted sales from $103 million to $150 million. In the last decade-despite the nationalization of six stores by Castro's Cuba-Sears has tripled its number of stores to 64 in nine countries from Costa Rica to Brazil (plus seven in Puerto Rico). This week its top Latin American executives will meet in Mexico City, site of the biggest operation, to discuss further expansion. Next year the company will open two stores in Spain-its first European venture-and transfer some of its Latin American chiefs...
...Castro had lost something...