Page 56 - Studio International - March 1968

Edinburgh
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Painting in 7 parts, acrylic on wood, each part
47 x 27 x 3 in., by Rubens Gerchman in an
exhibition of 'Young Brazilian art' at Richard
Demarco, 8 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh 3 until
March 8. This exhibition is of work from the Brazilian
Pavilion at the last Biennale des Jeunes, in Paris.
The sections are titled 1. Football, 2. The pill,
3. Dentifrice, 4. Flag, 5. The beauty contest,
6. Cosmetics, 7. Television. At the same time Demarco
is showing tapestries by Tamara Hans-Janoiska.
Outside London
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Beehive 1965, screenprint (edition of 10), 30 x 26 in.,
by Richard Chesterman in an exhibition of 'Ten
British Printmakers' currently showing at College of
St. Matthias, Fishponds, Bristol from March 11-23.
Richard Chesterman was born in 1938 and studied
at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
He is now a lecturer at Leeds. Also included are
Gillian Ayres, Henry Cliffe, Anthony Currell, Alan
Davie, Malcolm Hughes, Sally Parkin, Ceri Richards,
Julian Trevelyan and Marek Zulawski. The show,
organized by Arnolfini, will next be showing at
Strode Theatre, Street, Somerset.
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Tours de Babel changees en ponts 1964-67, two out
of six panels, indian ink, 144 x 78 in. (complete
series), by John Furnival at Ikon, St Martin's House,
Bull Ring, Birmingham from March 4to 23. Furnival
has exhibited widely in England and represented
Great Britain in the Paris Biennale 1967 (see the
September issue of Studio International).
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Jonah and the Whale 1933, wood engraving, 15 x 8 in.,
by Gertrude Hermes at Peterloo, 33a Brown Street,
Manchester 2, from March 4to 29. Born in Bromley,
Kent in 1901, Gertrude Hermes studied at
Beckenham School of Art and the Leon Underwood
School of painting and sculpture. She qualified for
the finals in the Prix de Rome (engraving) in 1925,
and was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in
1963. She has exhibited widely in this country and
abroad, including a retrospective at Whitechapel
in 1967. She teaches at the Royal Academy Schools.

Austria
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Nude 1965, chalk on paper, 20 x 26 in., by Rudolf
Kortokraks at the 'Vienna Secession', Friedrich-
strasse 12, Vienna until March 13. Born in Germany in
1928, Kortokraks studied at the art school in Graz
and at the Freie Akademie, Mannheim. He has taught
in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and London and
has held one-man shows in Graphisches Kabinett
(Bremen), Moderne Galerie Netzel (Worpswede),
Welz (Salzburg), Gurlitt (Munich) and Stadtmuseum
Ludwigschafen.