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...statue of Father Damien, a seven-man commission solicited models from seven different sculptors. The one they approved, by a 5-to-2 vote, was a wood-and-wax model by Marisol Escobar, the whimsical Venezuelan pop-doll maker. Her model, based on photos of Father Damien taken toward the end of his life, shows his features graphically distorted by the disease that killed him. "I liked him when he was older," she explained. "He had really accomplished something then...
...Marisol's clever sculpture portrays Hugh Hefner [March 3] just as I see him: an absurd, shallow, gutless, blockheaded monster, definitely having too much of everything while imagining he is the prototype of the All-American male. But have courage, the promise is ever true: "This too shall pass." See! His foot is protruding...
...artist, who was born Marisol Escobar in Paris 36 years ago, of Venezuelan parents, studied in New York under the noted abstract expressionist, Hans Hofmann. Her much-sought-after work is in several U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Modern Art and the Whitney. She usually works more slowly than she did on her TIME commission, will spend as much as three months on a single piece in the company of her cairn terrier, Trolli...
...whimsical Hefner is a walk-around sculpture, 6 ft. tall, meant to be viewed from all sides. The body is painted onto a hollow box. The head is a wooden block that actually consists of a dozen pine boards glued together and shaped by Marisol's electric saw to look vaguely like a jet engine. Why a jet engine? She does not know. When the work arrived at our offices to be photographed for the cover by Frank Lerner, all the editors (well, nearly all) were delighted. But there were questions. Why the red, white and blue? "Perhaps...
Introspective and shy, but sharp, Marisol knew quite a bit about Playboy and Hugh Hefner. Recently she was asked to do a sculpture as part of a spread in which modern artists interpreted the Playmates. Marisol thought about it for a while, then declined because she "couldn't think of anything interesting to do. They look like caricatures already...