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Giinter Grass, Litt. D. German novelist, playwright, poet, sculptor, graphic artist, drummer and chef. You have persistently and uncompromisingly sought to probe beneath the perplexing surface of German life...
...Ralph Ortiz's Archaeological Find, No. 9, in which the sculptor did the excavator's work in advance; this abomination is composed of a crumpled French Provincial couch clotted with a gory semblance of mangled beef...
Sahara Noses. "I would love to make round, full bodies," says slender Giacometti, 63. "I just want to reproduce nature." Yet fleshing out volume, traditionally a sculptor's delight, appalls him. Said he: "The distance between one side of the nose and the other is like the Sahara." And so his stick figures present the long and the short of man rather than his breadth. As existentialist sculpture, Giacometti's work would be old hat. But, as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opens a retrospective of 140 works this week and London's Tate Gallery...
...within the graven image. "Heads, heads, heads!" he cries. "I've been doing nothing but heads for years. I'm no farther along than when I did my first bust at 13. Nothing I do will ever be finished, everything remains just another study." The sculptor maligns himself. Actually, his figures, singly and in groups, stand in ever more complex relationships. Increasingly, he has become discontent to leave his bronzes bare, painting their stark silhouettes as if providing the emperor's new clothes. Scale, too, remains a concern. A foot will bulk large with deliberate elephantiasis...
...know that if I could reproduce a head exactly as I see it," says the sculptor, "I would have everything else. If I could capture the ridge of the nos.e and the eyes, I would already be down to the neck. Then down to the feet is nothing. Under the feet you have the ground, and you can put anything you want to on the ground. But then again, I suppose, once you have the eye, you have everything, so you might as well stop. Anyway, I know with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed, even...