Page 52 - Studio Interantional - May 1967

Left Adrian Berg March landscape 1966
22x 30 in.
Bottom left William Brooker White bottles with a black tin 1966
36 x 39¾ in.
Below Edward Bullmore Astroform No. 3 1966
Oil, wood and canvas, 44½ x 4 ft.

is a little banal. Hundertwasser's real gift is as an did carry away—that of the manner in which the nothing so much as the architectural fantasies of
organizer of colour and pattern. It's astonishing space enclosed by the four walls of the gallery has Monsú Desiderio.
how many colours he can persuade to live to- been articulated, energized, made more eloquent.
gether in the same fairly small canvas, and not Pol Bury is not content with this kind of energy At the ROWAN GALLERY is work by Lenk, one of
only to live together, but to become more alive alone. His work is still kinetic—the work is made up the most interesting of the younger generation of
through contact. His handling of dense pattern is of various surfaces, and upon these surfaces pro- German sculptors. Lenk's work is related to the
masterly—it is here that he has managed to jections move. Or else Pol Bury constructs a kind kind of thing which Tucker is doing, but is per-
develop the discoveries made by the artists of the of frame or box which is the arena for action. I've haps a little more complicated. The pieces in the
Vienna Secession. always admired the subtlety and restraint of his exhibition show a progression of basic forms—often
use of movement, the slow tempo which he has the progression returns upon itself, so that the eye
At the KASMIN GALLERY a show of aggressive purity often been content to adopt seems to make his continually returns to where it began. Salvator
by William Tucker (another 'New Generation' work more dense, more convincing as a plastic Rosa invented the genre of the `battlepiece with-
sculptor) is- being followed by an exhibition de- statement. At the moment he seems to be moving out a hero', as the catalogue of the current Old
voted to the work of Pol Bury. With Tucker, every away from those little forests of antennae which Master exhibition at AGNEWS serves to remind us.
thing at the moment goes in threes. Simple forms were once the hallmark of his work, towards The equivalent, I suppose, in our own day is the
are grouped in rigorous triads. Faced with intel- something more innocent. One or two of the works abstract work without a true focal point for the eye.
lectuality carried to such a degree the critic are like ingenious nursery toys. Bury is also show-
finds himself a little lost for words (artists of ing a set of his `kinetizations' where the photo- An abstract artist of a different kind—almost but
Tucker's persuasion are apt to say that this ought graphic image of a familiar building, such as the not quite figurative—is Edward Bullmore, at the
to happen to critics more often). One impression I Eiffel Tower, is dislocated. These remind me of TAMA GALLERY in the Pimlico Road. Bullmore