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figuration are at their massive and weighty best in the Paul Huxley won one of the six painting prizes.
totemic warriors of Nobrumichi Kondo of Japan, Sculpture in general provided greater variety and
Ricardo lrarrazaval of Chile and Paul Rotterdam of intensity. Here Great Britain's adventures in plastic
Austria. Johannes Koetsier of Holland blows up the forms combined the colour impact of painting with a
sections of printed letters into formal elements of three-dimensional depth that became by paradox
torsion. Great Britain distinguished the national almost weightless as in The scene by Derrick Woodham
contributions by a strong contingent that ranged from and the acrobatic twist to the pillar Volution by Isaac
the strongly drawn View of the bay with its linear Witkin. With David Hall, Roland Piche and Tim Scott,
rhythmic areas by Patrick Caulfield to the lively strip­ they won the Prix de la Ville de Paris jointly for Great
tease 'ft won't be long now' by Antony Donaldson. Britain. The German representation was strong from

the nail reliefs of Gunther Uecker, cascading almost
fluidly over the seat of a chair and the group work
realised by the famous Zero Group of Uecker, Heinz
Mack and Otto Piene Luminous Mill. Son et Lumiere
was involved in the rigid planes of metal sculpture
1 by Mauricio Salgueiro of Brazil. Feliciano Hernandez
Michel Charpentier, France
Madame Z 1965 of Spain assembles leaves of iron in arboreal and floral
Cement
1.75 m. high motives that have structural force.
Establishing the continuity of the biennales the two
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The Zero Group, Germany prize winners chosen by the young artists In one
Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, exhibition are also given one-man shows in the
Gunther Uecker
Luminous Mi/11964 following one. Thus Allen Jones of Great Britain
Aluminium and iron nails chosen by French exhibitors in 1963 exhibited now a
220 x 1 30 x 80 cm.
brilliant collection of lithographs. Michel Charpentier
3 of France chosen by the foreign exhibitors was repre­
Antony Donaldson, Great Britain
It Won't Be Long Now 1964 sented by a group of figures and torsos in cement and
Oil on Canvas
66 X 66 in. bronze, carrying the sombre identities of limbless young
Collection: Mr. J. Bannenberg women vertically ossified in a twentieth century
4 Pompeian eruption.
Feliciano Hernandez, Spain Also exposed as reward from the previous biennale
Sculpture in Iron, 11964
130 x 110 x 30 cm. were Anna Letycia Ouadros of Brazil, whose brilliant
5 drypoint etchings combine abstractly the blackness of
Mauricio Salgueiro, Brazil a mass as counterpoint with the strength of bitten
Urbis 11965
Cast metal with objects, sound hatchings and Jennifer Dickson, a South African
and music etcher, whose figuration is evocative and free. ■
107 x 75 x 62 cm.
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