Page 28 - Studio International - May 1965

L 'homme. 1963
Bronze 79 ,n. high
Galerie Claude Bernard
A cast of this bronze 1s now
in the Tate Gallery. lent by
the Hanover Gallery

invention and figuration, although the very core of his
work-and it is its value-is precisely to evolve incessantly
and to offer itself ambiguously, twice and many times.
He advances on many fronts with the same audacity,
throwing between the objects and himself and indeed
the spectator, slender unusual bridges but from where
the view is impregnable. The theme appears 1n its
relation to the universe and simultaneously in its
structure and exterior proliferations.
lpousteguy is a keen draughtsman, always on the alert,
and his drawing incrusts itself in the volume, in some
predestined and permanent way; this gives to each
kneaded or modelled mass a spontaneity, a reserve of
strength. This is what makes for an openness in his
creation and his sculptures, so deeply marked by
intelligence and spirit, seem the least premeditated.
One of his most complex works Roger et le Peuple
des Marts with its combination ofhundredsofelements:

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