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Artists' Market, organized by However, the sculptor's his feelings about the role of Nature
Vera Lindsay with Norman NEW determination to prevent such in 20th-century architecturally-
Rosenthal, will take place at the physical notions of possession or orientated public works. In any case
Warehouse Gallery, 44-48 Earlham recreation comes across very clearly. the brass inlays spaced throughout
Street, Covent Garden, London, from WORK Again, the colour plays an essential Otera suggest floating leaves and in
18 September through November. role as it channels the observer's one place a puddle. The use of such
On view at the Liverpool exhibition mind into an Oriental wavelength. delicate subsidiary themes helps to
Rumours that the conceptual art 'Magic and Strong Medicine' is One thinks of the Zen state of mind articulate the larger, somewhat
exhibition at ICA's 'Summer Studio' Hubert Dalwood's solution to the which comfortably spreads kinship mundane forms, and to sustain one's
was a hoax have been vehemently selector's request for a sculpture to unlike forms. visual curiosity.
denied by impresario Nicholas which would fill the room. Dalwood's
Wegner :'My artists produce serious matte-red edifice is a commanding Although it is true that Dalwood has What the sculpture requires is a
works independent of parody. They structure. Apart from the startling used before such unorthodox proper context. For its size and
bridled at being described as colour the piece itself has great bulk appendages as the cloth ties and magnificence the piece should be
"Wegner's stable".' and contrast, beginning with the organic matter seen in Otera, lately outdoors or in a large courtyard. Yet
knee-high platform measuring 32 x 24 he seems totally ready to formulate it would be hard for a democratic
The Arts Council of Great feet upon which stand cylindrical a personal iconography with public to accept or identify with one
Britain has set aside £5,000 in the columns over 15 feet tall. These heterogeneous media. Perhaps the person's definition of a monument,
current financial year for enterprising uprights support an equally massive opportunity to see Japanese gardens religious or otherwise.
commercial galleries. beam balanced horizontally which and temples last summer reinforced CATHERINE LAMPERT
in turn sprouts a large drapery at the
Prospect 73 runs from September rounded tip. In the interior a stepped
28-October 7 at the Kunsthalle, rectangular block has been sliced in
Düsseldorf. two parts on a diagonal and the gap
filled with luscious sod and moss.
Audio Arts, the first tape cassette
art magazine, will issue its first edition The work, titled appropriately Otera
in October. Editions will be quarterly (Buddhist for temple) hasn't merely
(60 minutes long approx.) and backed the Gargantuan proportions to
by supplements. UK : Sub. cost £6.50 impress a mass audience, but in
pa incl. Outside UK: £8.00 incl. Air addition a sealed, smooth surface
Mail. Cost per single cassette £2.00 which seems to radiate messages
(plus 15p postage UK, 50p outside like a long-emptied ancient tomb.
UK). Address : Audio Arts, The strong aura, resonant even
136 Gordon Road, London, W.13. soporific, derives from the inward
pull of the quarter-rounded edges
Prix de Portrait Paul-Louis and the clever absence of
Willer 1974 for sculptors. Closing constructional clues. No nuts, bolts,
date for information and entry forms, or anchoring mechanisms are visible.
December 1, 1973. Address :
Secretariat de ('Academie des The work's impregnability tempts
Beaux-Arts, 23 Quai de Conti, the spectator to have an exploratory
75270 Paris Ce dex 06. ramble. One feels a psychological
need to sound out the beams for
Europe Prize for Painting hollowness, strength and scale.
(Ostend) 1973. Gold Medal
winners: Arnoldi (Denmark), Oswald
(Belgium), Ado (Japan/Paris),
Kennedy (Australian/London).
Rhonda Whitehead (Silver) and
Stephen Buckley (Bronze) were two
British winners.
Peter Townsend was recently
elected chairman of the Greater
London Arts Association.
Catherine Lampert is the new
Exhibition Organizer at the Arts
Council of Great Britain.
Robert Smithson, the artist, was
killed in a plane crash on 20 July. He
was thirty-five.
Robert Hyde, director of the
environmental/media course at the
RCA, London, died in July.
Apology: In the article 'Nouns,
gerunds and participial adjectives'
(July/August issue p.4) the
author's name should have
been spelt Mitch Tuchman.

Frameworks Journal No. 2 is
now available, price £1, post
free from Frameworks Press, 185
Archway Road, London N6. Articles
by Baldwin, Stezaker, Bird etc.
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