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Said Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida, 28, wife of Dr. Mirko Skofic, a physician out of practice: "I must confirm that I am expecting a child-probably in July...
...sculpture award went to another Italian, 45-year-old Sculptor Mirko, for his bronze, stone and copper figures. Not until the jury got to the 18 lesser awards did a West Coast artist finally score: a purchase award to Kentucky-born San Franciscan Ralph du Casse, 39, for his strong linear abstraction entitled The Viking. The news, when it reached California, all but floored Prizewinner du Casse. Said he: "I'm amazed. I don't paint to sell. That's too much to hope...
...distributed I.N.S. photos of Gina cavorting in cancan dresses for a new movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat. Resuits: Chinigo slapped two suits on Skofic (for violation of domicile and uttering in timidating threats); Gina sportingly sued Chinigo on three counts (abuse of her image, defamation of character, insults via telephone). Meanwhile, with her lawyer fattening...
Rome's Alberto Burri even managed to be pleasantly shocking. His "pictures" consisted chiefly of ripped, patched and pasted burlap. Sculptor Mirko (last name, Basaldella) exhibited four metal abstractions in four separate styles, each startlingly successful. His Chimera has the still aliveness of an ancient Chinese bronze; his Architectonic Element is a single sheet of brass cut and bent to take the light as elaborately as a great scarred cliff...
...Mirko's brother, Afro, offered the most rewarding canvases of all: Afro's abstractions seem always on the point of becoming recognizable, like reflections in a rippling pool. His spiderweb lines and frosted glass colors move and shimmer delightfully, seeming to change with the mood of the observer. Like all first-rate artists, Afro knows exactly what he is about. "Can the rigorously formal organism of a painting," he asks, "contain the lightness, the living breath of an evocation, the leap or shudder of memory? This, for me, is the problem...