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This may seem like heavy freight for mere fashion to bear, but Japanese designers do not usually make the fussy Western distinction between craft and art. Issey Miyake talks about the "energy" of fabric and works with a bolt of cloth like a sculptor with clay, not molding it into a presketched design but draping the whole length over a body, drawing the shape of the final garment from the fabric itself as it works in easy collaboration with the body. Rei Kawakubo, the most austere and cerebral of these new designers, speaks intensely about "getting down to the essence...
...University's first and only studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Brooklyn bred Dimitri Hadzi enjoys the unique position of Harvard's permanent artist in residence. He is a sculptor of world acclaim represented in the permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality...
...Best of Friends, Michaelis examines seven friendships. In each case, he displays a conspicuous gift for drawing out his subjects, such as the torrentially voluble, visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, 87, and his friend of 50 years, the laconic sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, 78. Michaelis, a 1979 Princeton graduate, is most successful at re-creating the Ivy League background of the lifelong friendship between George Love, 82, and Donold Lourie, 83. Both men, who went on to become heads of families and the chiefs, respectively, of Chrysler and Quaker Oats, never ceased to view themselves as the golden boys of Princeton...
...iron began many centuries ago," declared Catalan Sculptor Julio González in the 1930s. "It is high time that this metal cease to be a murderer and the simple instrument of an overly mechanical science. Today the door is opened wide for this material to be-at last!- forged and hammered by the peaceful hands of artists." Prophetic words, and it was largely González's own work that made them true. The great shift in sculptural history during this century, away from "closed" (solid) to "open" (constructed) form, became possible through the use of iron. Gonz...
DIED. Richard Stankiewicz, 60, sculptor and an innovator of assemblage who reclaimed flotsam and jetsam from what he called "the sea of junk around us" and welded it into irreverent, often witty, anthropomorphic or zoomorphic constructions that nonetheless were possessed of a cohesive, entirely unrandom vision; of cancer; in Worthington, Mass...