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...Pare feels that light and movement are an improved way to convey today's inescapable but often evanescent reality. "Once," he says, "things were more eternal. Art was made to be eternal...
...Patriarch of Venice could hardly believe his eyes when he put on the trick spectacles at the prizewinning display of Argentina's Julio Le Pare, 38, at the Venice Biennale last summer. In front of the eyeholes loomed shiny flaps of metal reflecting his own disbelief. Argentine military brass, puffed out with pride that their countryman had won the Grand Prix for painting, deflated with astonishment when they stood in front of one of Le Fare's "paintings"-a long sheet of shiny metal that captured their own images, then freakishly elongated them as they pressed the foot...
Cheating Cheaters. As far as the young and adventurous are concerned, Julio Le Pare sums up what is happening in art. How seriously they take him is a question that doesn't bother Le Pare at all. He describes his own work as "a labyrinth, a fun house, a release from the conventional, uncomfortable world." He is all against the high seriousness with which critics and museums surround works of art. "Rather than take my art seriously," he explains, "the spectator should laugh when he enters the room." The cream of the jest Le Pare generally keeps to himself...
...Actually, the judges gave Le Pare the prize in painting for lack of a better category. In view of the increasing number of works that defy the usual classifications of "painting" and "sculpture," they also recommended that in the future, categories be dropped entirely...
...measure of the hard times that everyone took the announcement in stride-even the unions. Accustomed to protesting any move to reduce the work force, the unions are aware that if the Guardian cannot pare costs, it will probably suspend London production and print only in Manchester. Besides, the unions had already agreed to negotiate layoffs with the London...