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...announcing the gift last week, Architect William Hartmann, a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the three firms involved in designing the civic center, revealed that Picasso's design will be executed in ever-rusting Cor-ten steel, the same material as the 31-story building. "This is not a cast that bears the thumbprint of the artist," said Hartmann. "Picasso created some thing that has to be constructed like a building." To do so will cost $300,000, a tab to be assumed by three private foundations. If all goes well, the sculpture will be installed...
Siesta & Small Talk. The project all began, Hartmann said, three years ago, when the architects decided that the 85,000-sq.-ft. Civic Plaza called for "an important piece of sculpture." Why not go right to the top, approach Picasso? Armed with models of the building and photographs of Chicago, Hartmann descended upon the artist's villa at Mougins on the French Riviera. Though Picasso had never been to Chicago-or, for that matter, to the U.S.-he delightedly recognized pictures of Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. "Mon ami Hemingway," he exclaimed, then explained that he had taught...
...final sculpture, Hartmann explained, would be placed before the city's Palais de Justice, or courthouse. For a year Picasso ruminated, finally painted the first sketch on plywood. Then, working with twisted cardboard, which his assistant translated into pieces of metal and assembled, Picasso developed two versions, one light and delicate, the other roughhewn. Not until May 1965 did Picasso bring the two together, announce: "This...
...game of guessing Picasso's true intention is likely to go on as long as the sculpture stands. So is the equally nagging question, why Chicago? Says Hartmann: "It is a city not unlike Picasso. It is a volatile place. Besides, he began to love it, to think of it as a city of great beauty, vigor and vision." The only one, in fact, with the vigor and vision...
...once. Last week he popped up at the Munich Opera Festival singing the lead role in Hindemith's rarely performed Cardillac. Premiered in 1926, the opera -a starkly sketched exercise in early expressionism-is hardly everyone's cup of tea. Yet as interpreted by Director Rudolf Hartmann and Fischer-Dieskau, cast as a goldsmith who peddles his handiwork by day only to redeem it at night by killing off his customers, Cardillac proved the surprise hit of the month-long festival. Stable Serenade. At 40, Fischer-Dieskau is a comparative newcomer to the world's opera houses...