Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...double insurance.Master Foundry-man Bruno Bearzi was commissioned to make plaster impressions and cast bronze replicas. Since Bearzi used the waste-mold process, in which the plaster is broken off, only one set of duplicates was made. In 1948 the scrubbed originals were rehinged at the famed San Giovanni Baptistery. Five years ago. San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal' Grace Cathedral, under construction in traditional Gothic style, commissioned the completion of the duplicate doors Now the replicated Ghibertis have a godly home...
...large plates) is devoted to just 14 works, the "black paintings" with which he decorated the walls of his country villa toward the end of his life. The black paintings are massive, powerful, hell-ridden. But they are also sadly deteriorated with time, having been originally executed on plaster in oil paint that was transferred bodily to canvas many years later. Their power finally eludes even the great care and scale of these reproductions...
...Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...artist is judged by the company his work keeps, Peter Agostini is a pop sculptor. At the current sculpture exhibition in Manhattan's Jewish Museum, Agostini's plaster popovers are on show across from George Segal's plaster mummies. All summer long, some of his clustered plaster balloons hung, like monster grapes for a superbacchanalia, outside the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair next to Robert Indiana's EAT sign, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon, and Jim Rosenquist's billboard...
...recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins for a fashionable Manhattan women's store. This led him to sculpt pseudo-delicatessenry for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. He molded polyester salamis, pepperonis and meat loaves-stuff that by some pop values would be worth bundles...