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Sunday, August 31, 2008
The season: Blanton Museum of Art
Despite its mind-numbing title “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York,” actually promises to be an interesting exhibit.
It opens Sept. 28 at the Blanton Museum of Art and runs through Jan. 18.
From 1963-67 a group of ten artists in New York formed a collective and a gallery known as Park Place. And it was the epitome of 1960s experimentation. Free jazz, the architecture of the city, the utopian visions of Buckminster Fuller and exploration of the so-called “fourth dimension” of cosmic consciousness — this was the fodder of Park Place. From urban space to outer space, the Park Place people reimagined space in every possible way.
Think large sculptures made of industrial materials and with mind-bending geometries.
Anthony Magar, “Cardinal IV,” 1966. Painted steel.
Think paintings in explosive hues and jazzy patterns.
Tamara Melcher. “Untitled,” 1965. Acrylic on canvas.
It all seems so groovy, is what.
Edwin Ruda. “Redball,” 1965. Oil on plywood.
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Mark di Suvero loans UT major sculpture
Renowned American sculptor Mark di Suvero is loaning the University of Texas one of his major sculptures for long-term exhibition.
UT intends to purchase the piece — “Clock Knot” — for its new public art collection. Like other di Suvero sculpture, “Clock Knot” is monumentally scaled and constructed primarily from steel pieces welded and bolted together.
About 41-feet tall, “Clock Knot” will be installed on the northeast corner of Dean Keeton Street and Speedway in front of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building. Once “Clock Knot” is installed, it will be painted red.
“Clock Knot”
Di Suvero — a key figure in the development of postwar American sculpture — will install the piece himself Sept. 26 with a dedication at 1:30 p.m.
The event is timed to coincide with the opening of the Blanton Museum exhibit “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York.” Di Suvero was founding member of the Park Place Gallery.
Austin’s certainly not the first Texas city to get a di Suvero. There are several di Suvero works in the collection of Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Garden, at the Dallas Museum of Art and one on view at Dallas Meyerson Symphony Hall as at the Northpark Center Mall. Di Suvero’s “Pranath Yama” is a the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Corpus Christi claims one at the Bayfront Arts and Science Park.
