Word: gimenez
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Evil can be passive, like Albert's, or gross, like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then...
...advent of iron is the subject of an extremely beautiful show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, curated by Carmen Gimenez, with excellent catalog essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. "Picasso and the Age of Iron" involves three European artists -- Alberto Giacometti, Gonzalez and Picasso -- and two American ones, David Smith and Alexander Calder. Its time span is from 1928, when Picasso made an open frame of iron rods with a pinhead and two tiny startled hands and called it Figure, to Smith's maturity in the early 1960s. But its core...
...Picasso and Gonzalez -- and, to some extent, of Giacometti, whose space constructions like The Palace at 4 A.M. inspired the young American artist in the '30s to make a series of small iron precincts and even a miniature iron house, complete with iron paintings on the walls. Curator Gimenez's choice of his work is an exemplary condensation. Beginning with those initial Surrealist images, it picks up on the early sculptures that clearly indicate the bent of his talent, such as Amusement Park, 1938, a small work that both remembers Picasso's iron woman figures and conflates their shapes with...