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ALEXANDER CALDER - Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Next month Calder's mobiles will take to the air at the Guggenheim. Meanwhile, some 30 circus drawings, all done before he started launching tin and wire into upper living space, make a fitting prelude to the retrospective. Perls also has a few mobiles. Through...
MARINA NUÑEZ DEL PRADO and SIDNEY WOLFSON - World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. New works by Miss Del Prado, a Bolivian sculptress who exploits the grain of exotic woods, smooths onyx and marble into virginal shapes that often echo the human form; and 40 paintings by New Yorker Wolfson, whose subtle shades sing in soft harmony. Through...
ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco could have thought possible." With fantasy and pathos rather than bitterness, Bearden turns out blues to hang on a wall. From cutouts - crooked nose, laughing eyes, tearstained cheek - he collages surreal cityscapes of Negro life, then photographs and enlarges them, for the liveliest views on the avenue. Through...
GRUPPE SPUR - Osborne, 965A Madison Ave. at 75th. In 1957 four young Munich artists began exhibiting together, calling themselves the Gruppe Spur to describe their search for a new path. Lothar Fischer sculpts figures that resemble the inscrutable distortions of a first-grader's picture of teacher. Painter Heimrad Prem piles hills and houses in pell-mell landscapes, colors them pink. Hans-Peter Zimmer paints big green frogs that seem to have something to croak about. Helmut Sturm's Romeo and Juliet embrace in a tangled orgy of lines, their faces hidden by a bright red blush. Through...
...then cited the "intense pressures of our society," which include "clothing styles, the Madison Avenue exploitation of sex, the movies and literature," all of which add up to an "intense erotic stimulation." However, he continued, "our society at the same time denies young people their natural fulfillment. The laws and taboos, the demands of longer schooling, and jobs, and military service all require of them an unnatural restraint...