Raymond Mason

Raymond Mason

Read more articles Raymond Mason   Jean Ipoustéguy died on Wednesday, February 8, 2006, aged 86. With him, a whole chapter closed in the fiercely solitary endeavor that was the life of a sculptor. I knew him well, and I want to pay tribute to him. It is a...
Évelyne Artaud

Évelyne Artaud

Read more articles Évelyne Artaud EVELYNE ARTAUD: Allow me to follow this line which, in sculpture, becomes a bundle of lines, developing a plurality of viewpoints that sets us in motion—but also, of course, calls us into question: hence the coiling of the question...
André Glucksmann

André Glucksmann

Read more articles André Glucksmann Perched, observing, you contemplate time: the operation of a back, curving like wheat bent by the wind. (Ipoustéguy speaks: “There is no blood—blood is only for birth, that is the great rule. The homicidal gesture is cleansed;...
Luigi Carluccio, “Jean Ipoustéguy”

Luigi Carluccio, “Jean Ipoustéguy”

Read more articles Luigi Carluccio, “Jean Ipoustéguy” Here is an artist who takes us by storm, yet he himself is difficult to grasp. For while it is true that we immediately perceive the grandeur of his intentions and the strength with which he releases a...
Dieter Ruckhaberle

Dieter Ruckhaberle

Read more articles Dieter Ruckhaberle Dieter RuckhaberleArt critic The same experience that moves us when we read Joyce’s Ulysses—that is exactly what it is—or Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, is what moves us when we encounter Ipoustéguy’s...