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...death mask of Holmes, done by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, greets visitors as they enter the exhibit. This life-size stone mask has ghostly quality of authenticity, giving the impression of a slumbering Holmes presiding over the show...
...director, Frank Dunlop, who has already enhanced the year with the laugh-strewn Scapino, seems incapable of an error in pace, tone, stance or phrasing. He is a meticulous sculptor of actorscape-the distance, closeness, stillness and motion with which players relate to one another onstage. This company is not called the Royal Shakespeare for nothing: to the last man, woman and prop, it is most royal. ·T.E.K...
...Curator James Wood writes in his catalogue essay, "To deal with Max Bill solely as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist is to make a distinction which he never made in his work: the distinction between Fine Art and the other areas of his activity." Bill has practiced as an architect; he has designed all manner of manufactured objects, from samovars to wall clocks; he was responsible for the shape of one the most elegantly pure pre-stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force...
...turn out, however, that his main achievement is as a sculptor. One's sense of Bill's sculpture has been warped in America by the small steel multiples he made in the '60s, glittering machine-age bibelots. The larger work is a very different matter. Even more than the paintings, Bill's sculptures begin with a baldly simple form but end as mysteriously contemplative apparitions. Construction from a Ring (1940-41) is a fat torus or ring sliced in half and then set up with one half balanced on the other. It is a geometrical form...
...doing it in one piece, designing special furnaces and bracing systems and winches for it, and even a way of casting it buried upside down in the marshy Milanese soil without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because, in the end, he had no bronze: it had all been requisitioned for cannon against the French...