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...much possessed by death. From his early Buchenwald illustrations to his latest environments, Paris remains a poet of ritual and mortality: he has even been known to bury an invisible sculpture sealed in a black coffin as part of a happening, and one large environmental piece at Berkeley, Pantomima Illuma (1966), is a kind of tomb, a black chamber with soft walls and eerie pencils of light on ambiguous, fleshy bits of sculpture. Paris' work is that of a rich and disordered temperament, which manages to be both heavily serious and slightly glib...
...ticket costs 80?. No critics are invited. The playgoers are peasants and factory workers. The show is called Grande Pantomima con Bandiere e Pupazzi Piccoli e Medi (Grand Pantomime with Banners and Puppets Small and Medium), and it is a phenomenal theatrical event. On its present tour, which began last October, it has played in 138 different towns and villages of northern and central Italy, mostly on one-night stands, to audiences ranging from 500 to 3,000. Everywhere the reception is astonishing. One evening recently, in the tiny village of San Martino in Fiume, 540 of the 800 inhabitants...
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