Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first impression of Montreal Expo-goers is one of gigantic exhibition structures, lofty space domes and minirails. But as visitors are discovering in increasing numbers as the summer wears on, the 1,000-acre site is also studded with dozens of delightful surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty...
...sculpture at Expo is mostly co temporary, explains Arts Adviser J. Jacques Besner, because "every exposition provides a chance for the world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more...
Taut Crossbow. The Calder is not an unmitigated success, partly because it was necessary to blunt its knifelike edges with heavy reinforcements to enable it to withstand the brisk winds that blow off the St. Lawrence. It suffers, like most Expo sculpture, from comparison with the bizarre silhouettes of the pavilions. Nonetheless, most fairgoers like Calder's Man. Murmured one miniskirted coed, gazing up at it last week: "I like the strength and the way it springs up. It has power, like a human being. Flowers spring up, but not in the same...
...liveliest furor has been stirred up by the "Fantasy Garden" atop the French pavilion, which features Niki de Saint-Phalle's bouncy papier-machelike manikins engaged in combat with the machines of Jean Tinguely. "Fiendish!" sniff elderly English matrons. "Great, wild, erotic!" says a Montreal college-student Expo guide...
...what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...