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...Suvero came to New York from California in 1957 and settled in a rambling market building in Lower Manhattan. From its steep roof, a panoply of bridges, rigging and wharves unfolds. This is his sculptural landscape−as the marble quarries of Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Energy as Delight | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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