Bertrand Tillier, “Ipoustéguy, the laws of scvlptvre”
Read more articles Bertrand Tillier, “Ipousteguy, the laws of scvlptvre” Ipoustéguy, the laws of scvlptvre In one of the texts Francis Ponge devoted to the work of Germaine Richier, entitled ‘SCVLPTVRE’, Francis Ponge noted the unpronounceability of ‘this...
John Updike, The Vital Push
Read more articles John Updike, The Vital Push Jean Ipoustéguy, born in Dun-sur-Meuse in 1920, may be the most important living French sculptor, yet he remains little known in the United States. Two of his major bronze sculptures, David and Goliath and Man Passing...
Alain Bosquet: “Ipoustéguy the Great: Rupture, Cracks, Fissures”
Read more articles Alain Bosquet: “Ipoustéguy the Great: Rupture, Cracks, Fissures” Whatever the scrap-metal welders, plaster silhouette molders, fabric weavers, pyromaniacs of matter, garbage scavengers, machinists operating mechanical contraptions that sigh, spit or...
Pierre Gaudibert: “Sequence Shot”
Read more articles Pierre Gaudibert: “Sequence Shot” In 1978, the year of Ipoustéguy’s fifty-eighth birthday and his major (provisional) retrospective in Paris, what constitutes his intimately linked human and artistic personality? Let us draw on all possible...