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...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...
...Italy's Emilio Vedova, 40, whose paintings, said one critic, "look like blackboards beaten with chalk erasers." Vedova uses white splotches on black backgrounds to create a canvas of garish, swirling effects, which he sweepingly titles Image of Time 1959, Tyranny 1960. ¶ Italy's Pietro Consagra, 39, who uses acetylene torches, electric drills, wrenches and vises to turn out large, dugout slabs of metal that look like negative prints of abstract bas-reliefs. Two almost identical pieces bear the titles Colloquy with Wife and Colloquy without Wife; the other nine Consagras are also called Colloquies. (Those...
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