Word: feigen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature to the politically conscious artist. In the 1960s, instead of editorializing in melodramatic imagery, the artist is apt to employ the more oblique weapons of abstract parody and wit. His sentiments are no less angry on that account-as could be seen last week in Chicago. At the Feigen Gallery, 47 artists displayed acid valentines to Mayor Richard J. Daley, 21 of them composed especially for the show...
...angry men were responsible for the exhibit: Chicago Art Dealer Richard Feigen, a Democrat who found himself shoved into the aisle during the convention by Daley's sanitation workers, and Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who was visiting the city at the time and, as he recounts it, got "tossed to the ground by six swearing troopers who kicked me and choked me and called me a Communist." In such a context, Oldenburg told Feigen, "a gentle one-man show about pleasure" that he had originally promised the gallery for November seemed "a bit obscene." Still, he was willing to help...
...latest works, currently at Manhattan's Richard Feigen Gallery, avoid the clanking humdrum of much kinetic art. Magically, when someone approaches his Sensitive Sphere, a particolored ball bounces into the air. In a variation, an 8-mm. film is projected into an airborne ball, playfully contorting and distorting the tiny images of human figures. Another work presents the appearance of a bouncing ball inside a shaped screen by means of rear projection...
...flake" (colored metal chips frozen in sprayed vinyl) finishes. They take the serpentine ripple of flames painted on the sides of racing cars, the flapping forms of the parachutes used to slow giant dragsters. Before Laing's one-man show in Manhattan opened last week at the Richard Feigen Gallery, they also were completely sold...
ROBERT BÜCKER-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Hard-edged icons by a 28-year-old New Yorker: polyptychs of oil on wood are marked with only an occasional economical line to suggest Romanesque pillars and arches. Bücker is delicate, antique, and trim enough a craftsman to be a builder of clavichords, also on view. Through...