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form design they emulate. The differently executed nects squashed or wing-like. fading elements in the
stratification girdling the figure shows Reiter's desire manner of a resolved figure.
for independent solutions. Even as graphic artist, Reiter Urteil. Pastra and Reiter (and perhaps also Wach),
has advanced more and more into new fields of his own. even in the examples of extreme distortion. have
Emotional arrangement and creation of forms also imparted figurative cohesion to their work. While they
define the work of the Wotruba student Nausica Pastra. agree in this aim of a 'human· plastic art, the path
Mood and content are communicated in a remarkable entered upon is in each case different. The convoluting
combination of cautious nuances and sharp contrasts. gristle and bone forms in Urteil's work. the improvised
since the first beautiful. independent amphora shapes ridges and furrows on the figures of Nausica Pastra and
were transformed to slender. strutted figures. the smooth the interweaving and tangling of skeins and orbits in
evenness to the scoria crust of the last surfaces. A the work of Erwin Reiter imply a very differentiated con­
tenacious. scrupulously considered creation can be struction and articulation.
traced in the volcanic structure. contemporary symbol of A figure ideal of strict predetermination and methodical
human existence. A similar direction is being taken by construction is asserted by the sculptural creation of the
the Tyrolean Rudolf Wach, living in Milan. who con- Greek Joannis Avramidis. naturalized in Vienna. His

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