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changing volume which prolongs the recital in all the doubt. Art, I believe. is sufficiently vast to inhabit
senses. And Tinguely, deus ex machina. busy but calm. simultaneously both hemispheres. Certain readers
reigns over this empire. would not, perhaps, have followed me to this point.
How can one not remember the heroic epoque of his astonished doubtless to see a man who exhibits the
beginnings? It was. in that famous Impasse Ronsin of wheels of bicycles and pistons presented in the pages
the 15th arrondissement where have passed all the where one deals usually with painting in oils or with
celebrated artists. the neighbour of the great Brancusi modelled forms. Tinguely-is he a sculptor? He is. at all
-as if the accident of life stories had wished to bring events. more than a handyman, something else than an
together the two creators the most antipathetic that the engineer. he is neither Dadaist nor 'pop·. But he is
world had borne: the Rumanian. bearded and moody, assuredly an artist. He has discovered a new art
busy polishing unceasingly his forms full and laconic. because he has from the beginning forgotten the very
thus to say beyond time; the Swiss. thick set, dark. in idea of art. ■
white tights stained with grease. head and hands full of
electro-mechanical guile and of which all the versatile Julio Gonzalez 1876-1942 La pe111e danseuse Bronze 0/6 18 cm. high
and febrile ardour goes exactly to the opposite of the This sculpture was stolen from the French Pavilion at the Venice B1ennale
great work next door. on 15 October. 1964. Galerie de France. 5 Faubourg Saint-Honore. Paris Se
Which of the two is mistaken? Neither. without a ANJ. 69-37 would be pleased to know at once 1f 1t 1s offered for sale to any
collector or gallery.

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