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...Honolulu. He has been the subject of a documentary film. He has launched his own art movement. At his first Rome show last week, the dark-eyed youngster shyly received the personal congratulations of a group of distinguished Romans, including Writers Carlo Levi and Alberto Moravia, Sculptor Pericle Fazzini and Painter Afro Basaldella...
...show finally got under way, two weeks late. Despite the boycott and an abundance of mediocre canvases by what critics blasted as "pathetically stubborn anonymous youngsters" and "wall swallowers," there was still some topflight work among the 2,000 sculptures, paintings and drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio...
...church images are weaker, interesting chiefly for their elegance. Done on commission, they are Fazzini's livelihood...
...expressionistic sculptures Fazzini carves for glory; they sell badly. Some are more than half abstract, and Fazzini's bullying of the body into geometrical shapes can be hard to take. But Fazzini uses his freedom with figures to make them look alive from every angle. They seem to be in motion, often have the fiery spiral lift that Michelangelo, with infinitely greater subtlety, achieved. "The body in sculpture," Fazzini says, "is not something that breathes air as I breathe. It must live by itself, outside of physical death...
...cabinetmaker, Fazzini carved furniture in his father's workshop as a boy. At 16, he began studying sculpture, earned a four-year government scholarship almost at once. Married, he avoids company, spends long days alone in his cluttered studio off the Via Margutta (Rome's Greenwich Village), chain-smoking, pondering, taking up the chisel only at moments when he feels sure...