Page 45 - Studio International - July 1965

Photo: Jean Dubont

Le Crime Collectif outline is clearly defined in space: bold, undulating And so, between 1964 and the first months of 1965,
Sculpture No. 1126. DK.
Black steel structures, animated with a curvi-linear rhythm. Pierluca began to use polished steel, worked with the
200 x 100 x 100 cm. accentuated to a varying degree and encased within a same technical equipment and procedure, but with
strong formal structure. results that are indubitably more precise and give
This concept of frontality must not be interpreted too expression to a more complex conception of form and
rigidly; in certain cases. a bi-frontal form and mode articulation. The sculpture has opened out as though
make their appearance in the interstices between the driven by a deep centrifugal force; it is split up but
superimposed plates. with their interesting and engag­ without being reduced to fragments, and a new unity
ing play of perspective. of structure and composition is found in this conflict
The elliptical development of form counterbalances a of vibrant living material.
certain immobility in the flat surfaces of the opaque Ebonised steel and polished steel express in their
material which the artist uses to realise his conception; contorted volumes the fundamental contrast between
but the structure remains simple. and is primarily based the externals and internals; we can discern square
on contrasts. The sculptor's problem was to break with shapes and pointed lines which openly declare their
this oppressive immobility and relative frontality by inheritance of the masters of cubism; whilst the
working on a series of different levels. using different lacerations alluded directly to a physical or moral
materials (steel plates) to obtain a composition which wound, the new sculptures are valid in themselves as
is richer in plastic elements and complicated internal the conclusion of a process of evolution fixed at the
structures that open onto these perspectives of most significant moment of development. This is an
tmment. torn out by the heat of the welding flame. organic process which frees sculpture from rational,
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