Word: durchanek
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...clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn talent of considerable versatility and force...
...years, Durchanek has been a maker of frames, a therapist in a mental hospital, and a landscape gardener. From the hospital he learned the dark side of life, which finds expression in sculptures of bitterness and anger, of delicate poignancy, and occasionally of acid satire...
...that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what a bird...
...newly integrated school. The women were grouped in such a way as to suggest the positioning of the monsters' heads. The emotion of the scene was transformed into an explosion of claws and hoofs, of talon-shaped fingers and screeching beaks. It is a bristle of total hate. Durchanek calls it Mardi Gras...
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