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...finest in contemporary art to Pittsburgh. But the current budget of $160,000 does not go far in today's rapidly expanding art world. The U.S.'s current exhibit at São Paulo alone cost $70,000 to mount. Despite his budgetary problems, Director Gustave von Groschwitz unveiled a formidable 44th Carnegie exhibition last week. An international jury found so many works of merit that it selected not one, but six artists as winners of $2,000 prizes (see color pages...
Tokenism & Assault. To assemble his show, Von Groschwitz spent six months traveling in Europe, Canada and the U.S.-though not Latin America, the Orient or the Iron Curtain countries. He returned from his foray with 221 paintings and 108 sculptures by 326 artists from 17 nations. Every idiom in the current vocabulary of art is represented: machines clang, lights flash and mobiles shift subtly. Von Groschwitz drew the line only at the European artist who submitted a piece of dynamic Dada that requires the viewer to light a fuse, then watch as the work blows up in his face...
Galleries containing works by the artists of Spain, Japan and Italy are oddly disjointed and somehow déjà vu. Perhaps this is because, while Von Groschwitz visited many foreign countries, for economic reasons he has relied too often on sculptures already displayed in Manhattan galleries. Similarly, Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico and the U.S.S.R. are represented by one artist apiece-a form of tokenism that might better have been bypassed...
...tried to work for a balance," says Von Groschwitz. His rough rule was to give a third of the show to Americans and the rest to foreigners. The result shows how abstraction still rides high everywhere except in the U.S., where the strongest entries belong to the schools of pop realism and California figuratives. But balance does not suffice to explain the small numbers of young British artists and optical painters at the exhibition, especially in the face of bulky crops of Spanish, Italian and German artists...
...Groschwitz introduces 99 foreign artists and 54 U.S. artists to the Carnegie. None of the newcomers won prizes, although, of course, a jury went through the dismal ritual of choosing and awarding. The jury, composed of former Baltimore Museum Director Adelyn Breeskin, Abstractionist Hans Hartung, and British Picasso Expert...