Word: suvero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark di Suvero, 34, a Shanghai-born stablemate of Grosvenor's at the downtown Manhattan Park Place Gallery, constructs giant wood, steel, rubber-tire and rope constructions at his New Jersey junkyard. They are often designed to let viewers ride or swing on them, carry richly evocative titles such as Elohirn Adonai, Stuyvesantseye or Love Makes the World Go 'Round. -David von Schlegall, 47, is a space-age Mainer who fabricates immense wing-shaped constructions and soaring bolts out of shiny aluminum. One of his giant untitled works, supported by an interior space frame, is currently on display...
...century marble Bacchus was a natural for their modern atrium, but their love of the moment happens to be minimal sculpture. Scull first has wood models made, then shifts them from place to place. Sometimes he discovers delightful juxtapositions: Robert Morris' painted-aluminum square handsomely frames Mark di Suvero's tangled wood; after dark, Ben Berns' blue neon looks like a strange and lovely firefly among the hemlocks...
During the opening week, Parisians were agog at Marisol's painted wooden beach group and George Segal's plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. More contemporary sculpture, here limited to seven Americans: Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz and George Sugarman. Through...