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Stop! Enough! The other area of some promise is so-called photorealism. Robert Mann, a Californian whose paintings are on view at the Staempfli Gallery, has studied vintage photographs but does not refer to them when he paints. His aim is to recapture an era and a place: rural Ontario, where he grew up. The people are "a memory-they've floated back into this situation one more time." Their slightly stylized figures produce a kind of stage-front scrim against a photographic backdrop. The results have a peculiar authority, as hard to account for as it is easy...
Sharp-edged as a sword, erect as a phallus, spare as a symbol, the sculptures of Japan's Masayuki Nagare make even the generous dimensions of Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery seem cramped. They soar through the ceiling, project invisible backdrops of misted mountains against an opaline sea. Within themselves, around themselves, they create their own space. At the age of 50, Nagare has become clearly one of the world's major sculptors...
...fingertips are never wrong. So I pay more attention to texture." He spends hours and hours polishing the stone to produce surfaces both beautiful and sensuous. In fact, at the Staempfli there is a sign up saying "Please Touch." That is as it should...
...case, Wunderlich's fame has now risen above ground and is spreading fast. Aquarius Press in New York has just published a suite of his lithographs based on Solomon's Song of Songs. Next week his first U.S. exhibition of paintings opens at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery. In June he will be accorded a retrospective in the Print Biennale at Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne...
...addition to sculpture shows in these listings: Pol Bury at Lefebre, Marina Nuñez del Prado at World House (both through Nov. 7), David Smith at Marlborough-Gerson, George Rickey at Staempfli, Horst-Egon Kalinowski at Cordier & Ekstrom (all through Nov. 14), and Peter Agostini at Radich, 818 Madison Ave. at 68th (through...