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...ARTIST'S REALITY-New School Art Center, 66 West 12th. In spite of the pretentious title, the New School has a good summary of the goings-on in sculpture these days. One apiece by 50 artists here and abroad include such top names as Mastroianni, Ipousteguy, Marisol, Metcalf, Noguchi, Moore. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The sculpture garden sports new acquisitions by Ferber, Calder and Ipousteguy. The lures inside are Pierre Bonnard's luminescent paintings (through Nov. 29), prints made by painters and sculptors (through Oct. 25), collages, silk-screen prints and sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 works by German Sculptor Günter Haese (through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: UPTOWN: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...spate of exhibits over the past two years, including a showing at this summer's Venice Biennale, and major sales to private collectors and galleries, including one for the sculpture garden at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, have drawn Ipousteguy to the top rank of France's sculptors. Now 44, he gravitated to sculpture after years as a painter and grade-school art teacher, a job he kept until two years ago. He turned to sculpture in 1949 because "with its denser aspects it is more suitable to my expression, which is often closer to sadness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Profound Primitive | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...Dealer Claude Bernard saw his work and gave him a contract. The relationship is eminently satisfactory. Says Ipousteguy: "With Claude Bernard I have total liberty. He never asks me to meet a customer, never suggests that I make smaller, more easily sellable works. When my style evolves and changes, he makes no remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Profound Primitive | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...restless intellect, Ipousteguy likes to read widely: Proust, Sartre, Salinger, De Maupassant. He is attracted to painters as different as Turner ("He moves me like music") and the Pre-Raphaelites, and at the same time admires Tarzan comic strips. His resulting meditations lead him to jot down thoughts in a notebook. Mostly they are rather enigmatic: "This dirty juice, this thing much sanctified: this wine. This coward, this backward-looking fugitive: this Hero." But sometimes his jottings illuminate his sculptures-his half-noble, half-ridiculous Goliath, his David triumphant but howling with grief. Writes Ipousteguy: "Disfigured-transfigured, disfiguration-transfiguration; this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Profound Primitive | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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