Word: gabo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sculptor Naum Gabo, a near neigh bor of Breuer's in Connecticut, the Bijenkorf commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only...
Back to Vulcan. The metal sculpture school has roots as far back as Vulcan. Its immediate antecedent is constructivism, proclaimed by two Russian-born brothers, Naum Gabo (now in the U.S.) and Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...
...Naum Gabo, a sculptor and lecturer on Design; James J. Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Sigfried Giedion, visiting professor of Architecture, and Serge Chemayeff, professor of Architecture...
Since then, Gabo has lived in France, Britain and (from 1946) the U.S. Here hgi.has slowly built up a following among critics and collectors. Over the years he has produced about 100 sculptures, spent as long as ten years on some. The results, as shown last week, bear such titles...
Gallerygoers find Gabo's work interesting, even brilliant, but many complain that it is artificial. Gabo insists that his art is not at all artificial. He tries to bring out basic shapes that are hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell...