Page 29 - Studio International - May 1965

lpousteguy

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1 skulls, figures sketched in the cement like loaves of
La Coiffure Du Loup 1962
Bronze well leavened bread, offer a powerful instinctive
35 x 1 6 cm. character, a thrust forward, a revealing spring of
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mystery. Gonzales had made a series of squashed,
2 rough isolated faces which were like hallucinary
Dynamite (unique). 1964
Bronze 11.16 in. long variations of the same structure. Here each figure takes
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its accent in relation to the others and creates a
3 unanimous presence whose echoes repeat themselves,
La Terre. 1963
Bronze 70 ,n. high so to speak, to infinity.
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fantastic. lpousteguy also invents curious 'summaries'
of lines. One could not speak of symbols because his
signs are always concrete, bearers of details of lines
which evoke a living whole rather than establish a dead
synthesis. It is a metallic ribbon whose unexpected
unwindings contrasts itself in a suddenly struck sig­
nificance then out of it, like a musical vibration, comes
deep tones with lasting resonance. ■
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