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ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco could have thought possible." With fantasy and pathos rather than bitterness, Bearden turns out blues to hang on a wall. From cutouts - crooked nose, laughing eyes, tearstained cheek - he collages surreal cityscapes of Negro life, then photographs and enlarges them, for the liveliest views on the avenue. Through...
...Place of Entertainment. To have an American say that was infuriating to the French-and to have a Paris art dealer agree raised the chilling probability that it is true. As he closed down his Paris gallery permanently on July 1, Daniel Cordier circulated a letter that scathingly measured Paris' decline. "The dimensions of this city," he wrote, "are not compatible with the scale of modern civilization; it has become a holiday resort, a place of entertainment, and is becoming less and less a center of creative activity. In order to interpret our period, an artist...
...market. Play-safe French collectors never bought modern art, even French impressionists, on a big scale; and Paris art dealers always counted on Americans to buy moderns. Now that first-rate moderns are created in New York, Americans-and many Europeans-buy them in New York.*Moreover, as Cordier says, "the art market is particularly sensitive to fluctuations in the stock market," and the Paris Bourse failed to recover from the 1962 slump as strongly as the New York stock market...
GASTON CHAISSAC-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Chaissac is the town cobbler in Vix, France. He writes poetry, has been a friend of Dubuffet for 20 years. His art is marked by eccentricity and a sparkling imagination. With wash and wallpaper he wraps strange figures in startling ambiguity: one picture suggests both the Crucifixion and a scarecrow. In one room eight of his skinny wooden totems stand around and stare from odd, misshapen faces. Through June...
GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO - Cordier&Ek-strom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. New York's first look at this Italian's contribution to the Scribble school. Baruchello zips around Rome with the dash of -a young man going places; in painting he shows more caution. He draws little bugs, squiggles, squooshes on Plexiglas or on translucent white canvases in the vacant perspective of flyspecked windowpanes, makes them move in startling patterns-as though the insect were still buzzing around. Through April...