Word: trova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December exhibition is "Campbell Soup Cans" by Andy Warhol. A set of 10 original silkscreens. The gallery deals in original, contemporary graphics of such artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenberg Johns, Kelly, Krushenick, Stella, Gottlieb, Rauschenberg, Vasarely, Trova and Youngerman among others...
...London, when Trova showed them, they were called by one critic "the cumulative image of Man as victim, stereotype, faceless statistic." In Minneapolis, they typified, according to Curator Jan van der Marck, "the modern enigma." Trova himself has said, "The falling man is a personal hypothetical theory on the nature of man. I believe that man is, first of all, an imperfect creature...
Lost in a Maze. Now that his gleaming, chrome-plated figures stand on their own two feet in the U.S.'s top contemporary museums and private collections (the Museum of Modern Art put kaleidoscopes of Trova's falling men on sale for $3.95 each, sold 8,000 in the past year), Trova is less concerned with the figures than with the sculptural environments in which he places them (see color). "You might say I am a student of Aristotle," explained the mustachioed Missourian in his suburban St. Louis studio last week. "Man has to deal with things around...
...Maze, Trova says he meant the boxlike environment to be a "complicated" one. One figure is enclosed in a Plexiglas chamber, another figure is trying to get into one, while the third and fourth are lost among the partitions...
Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...