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Mountain, a great, two-humped gorm. proposes the multiple sculpture which interests younger
Different in character are a number of pieces in which men now and he has long investigated.
Noguchi is more rigorous, more mathematically exact. Another carver. the Italian sculptor Pietro Cascella. is
In several of the pieces carved in Ouerceta, sharply clearly seeking a means to circumvent the problem of
faceted. highly polished marble forms are mounted on the base. His best sculptures rest with total equipoise
thin. flat steel plates or on glass. straddling the support. on the ground. heavy reminders of permanence.
Here. Noguchi further explores the possibilities of When seen from above. these large forms carved with
minimizing the base. These weighty marbles. in­ rude grace from the broad-textured Roman travertine.
geniously cut to reveal their veinings in carefully form an expansive image. Both Mediterranean Sun
calculated patterns. stand at eye level and produce a and Pygmalion are composed radially, their large
strange illusion of weightlessness. curves tending to continue infinitely. Cascella seems
Here again Noguchi does not propose a new problem, most at home with the large, primitive images executed
but fresh solutions. He has long worked at various boldly in rough stone. When he polishes both travertine
levels in space. either making his bases very low or and marble. he falls into sculptural cliches. often based
high, or eliminating them altogether. There is. for on the memory of Brancusi. His exhibition at the
instance. a low study for a waterfall in granite. which Bonino Gallery included not only stone carvings, but
balances like a gently graded slide on the ground. The but bronzes in which he falters with small detail.
base is part of the total form which in turn conjugates Several direct metal sculptors exhibited recently.
itself with the earth. Seymour Lipton. a veteran welder. showed a large and
Related to these pieces are Noguchi's occasional accomplished group of recent sculptures at the
groupings of interlocking forms. Two is One lies low Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. For more than fifteen
in space. a rocking granite shape cradling an extending years Lipton has been pursuing what Duncan Phillips
armlike-form. Here. with great simplicity, Noguchi calls 'ideographic idioms· in his brazed metal com-

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lsamu Noguchi
Jamon 1961
Granite
Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery
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Richard Stankiewicz
Unm/ed 1965
Iron
43 X 24 X 16 in.
Stable Ga 1 1ery
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Pietro Cascella
Ulvsses 1963
Stone
Bonino Gallery
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