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...Nome. In New Mexico, incoming Republican Governor David Cargo proposed a federal-type cabinet system to replace an anarchic maze of 214 separate boards, commissions and offices. Said he: "Our constitution has been patched and overhauled to the point where the original design is obscured and where present and future needs are obliterated...
Lost in a Maze. Now that his gleaming, chrome-plated figures stand on their own two feet in the U.S.'s top contemporary museums and private collections (the Museum of Modern Art put kaleidoscopes of Trova's falling men on sale for $3.95 each, sold 8,000 in the past year), Trova is less concerned with the figures than with the sculptural environments in which he places them (see color). "You might say I am a student of Aristotle," explained the mustachioed Missourian in his suburban St. Louis studio last week. "Man has to deal with things around...
...Maze, Trova says he meant the boxlike environment to be a "complicated" one. One figure is enclosed in a Plexiglas chamber, another figure is trying to get into one, while the third and fourth are lost among the partitions...
...most visitors, jostling their way through the huge crowds in Paris' Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, it was more like threading a path through a maze presided over by the commanding, and at times terrifying, 20th century Minotaur. To guide viewers, Paris newspapers were running floor plans, and a TV program highlighted the "100 hinges," or turning points, in Picasso's career. Critics could have doubled that number; yet the overwhelming impression was that, for all of Picasso's protean changes, what is essentially Picasso is now well known...
...answer is that if the Minotaur cannot fully comprehend the maze, neither can the viewer, who remains trapped in the paintings' distortion and violence. Thus Picasso's work continues to evoke both anger and adulation from critics and the public alike. But it is the fact that the world still tries to comprehend, despite a sense of outrage and shock, that is the final gauge of Picasso's genius...