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effects. The space that they suggest is abstract space. year, the Young Artists' Biennale in Paris presented him
But the difference between Sklavos' drawings and the with the highest award and two years later the Museum
graphic works of other sculptors of his generation— of Modern Art of the City of Paris put on an exhibition
which are obscure to the uninitiated and which can of his entire oeuvre. He is at work on a stele for the
hardly be understood except by the most expert and village of Castellaras le Neuf ; this will be the connect-
attentive of spectators—is that his drawings immediately ing mark between the countryside and the architec-
give one an image of the work that might be born ture : it is an affirmation of the monumental qualities of
from these visual concepts. Every one of Sklavos' black the Sklavos style. He was invited in 1964 to the Inter-
and white studies is the draft of a potential sculpture. national Exhibition of the Carnegie Foundation ; he is
Yvonne and Christian Zervos were the first to show now taking part in a sculptural symposium in Canada,
their belief in these qualities—the rare qualities of where another stele is his subject. His whole work would
Sklavos' work. They gave concrete evidence of their seem to show the same irresistible strength that is
faith in his work by organising a one-man show for him present in each single piece and which is the deter-
at the little Cahier d'Art gallery in 1961. In the same mining spirit of their creation.
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