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Prologue by David Neuman<\/strong>, Director Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Five American Sculptors<\/em><\/em>, essay by Carter Ratcliff<\/strong>, American Art Critic and Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition catalogue no 1
No of pages: <\/strong>42, color, illustrated
Binding: <\/strong>soft cover
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Language: <\/strong>Swedish and English
Year: <\/strong>1987 <\/strong>
Publisher: <\/strong>Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
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Five American Sculptors<\/em> <\/em>by Carter Ratcliff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1957, when he was thirty years old, John Chamberlain found the style he would elaborate for the next three decades as a second-generation member of the New York School. It is a paradoxical style, at once brusque and dandified, the product looking hard at the aggrandized Cubism of such first-generation New York School painters as Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. Ten years later, Lynda Benglis looked to the anti-Cubism of Jackson Pollock. She was twenty-eight years old. Within the next few seasons, Benglis had made her first mature works by pouring pigmented latex on the floor of a New York gallery. Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick and Robert Therrien belong to yet another generation, one that is just now coming into focus. Born in the years 1947-49, they belong to no clearly delineated art movement. One could argue that there is no such movement to which they could belong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Chamberlain and Benglis before them, these younger artists have found individuality as sculptors by engaging deeply with painting. The five have something else in common: they are not Minimalists. This may seem too obvious to require comment, yet in the quarter-century since artists like Robert Morris and Sol LeWitt presented the chaste geometries that came to be known as Minimalist, every American sculptor has had to come to terms with the style. This was so even for Chamberlain, who had become a fixture on the New York scene well before Minimalism appeared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 1963 he made some small paintings whose sparse imagery might, if one insisted, count as Minimalist. Works like these appeared for a few more years but never disrupted his main line of development, which originated in the heat of Abstract Expressionism and simply bypassed Minimalist coolness. Benglis and the other three could not take that route, for they began working after Minimalism had established itself. Each confronted the style and sooner or later (quite a bit later, in Mel Kendrick\u2019s case) fought free of its authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To produce his crumpled metal forms, John Chamberlain invites the energies of the factory and the junk yard into his art. His refinement evolved \u2013 and continues to evolve \u2013 from a sense of the sturdy Cubist scaffolding beneath the agitated surface of so much New York School painting, especially Kline\u2019s and de Kooning\u2019s. Chamberlain\u2019s mixture of delicacy and force gives his art a double memory, one that reaches back to the neglected landscape of the scrap heap\u2019s time out of time and also to the time between the world wars, when stylistic differences signaled disagreements about the best way for art to transform the world. 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