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MoMA: 1st U.S. exhibition of Picasso sculptures in 50 years
ULA ILNYTZKY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New
York’s Museum of Mod-
ern Art is devoting an en-
tire floor to the sculptures
of Pablo Picasso in the first Picasso, who died in 1973,
major U.S. museum survey
of his three-dimensional
work in nearly 50 years.
From his earliest piece, a
tiny terra cotta of a seated
woman created in 1902, to
a head of a woman made
in 1964, “Picasso Sculp-
ture” features more than
140 works on loan from pri-
vate and public collections
that showcase the scope,
range and variety of his
sculptures. They include his
bronze “She-Goat” from
1950 and sheet metal and
wire “Guitar” from 1914
from MoMA’s own collec-
tion.
MoMA will be the only U.S.
venue to host the exhibi-
tion, which opens Sept. 14
and runs through Feb. 7.
The Spanish artist was
trained in painting, not
sculpting. This allowed him
to be “extremely free in
thinking about what is a
sculpture,” said Ann Tem-
kin, co-curator of the show.
“The degree of invention
in terms of material and
techniques that he used
introduced brand-new
ideas that had not been
involved in the making of
sculpture” before.
His “revolutionary” ap-
Lock details triumph and tragedy of climbing in ‘Thin Air’
CHRISTINA LEDBETTER
Associated Press
“Master of Thin Air: Life and do it without supplemental
Death on the World’s High-
est Peaks” (Arcade Publish-
ing), by Andrew Lock
After watching a slide show
of Mount Everest in a small
room in the back of a pub
30 years ago, Andrew Lock
made a decision to climb
the world’s tallest peak.
Thus launched a 24-year
journey ascending and de-
scending the world’s most
dangerous mountains, all
recorded in “Master of Thin
Air.”
Not long after attempt-
ing Everest, Lock, always
desperate for a new goal,
decides to attempt sum-
miting all 14 of the world’s
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proach had an enormous
impact on other artists, she
said.
viewed his sculptures as
companions, keeping
them in his possession dur-
ing his lifetime. This partly
explains why his 3-D works
are less known than his
paintings.
“He kept them in the
rooms of his home and all
the spaces of his studio,”
Temkin said. “They were his
stuff while in his mind the
paintings were something
he made to be shown and
sold.”
Picasso created about 700
sculptures — compared
with some 4,300 paintings.
He made them in phases,
sometimes with breaks of
several years. Each time he
resumed, he would begin Pablo Picasso’s sheet metal and wire “Guitar” from 1914, is one of 140 sculptures from his entire
with an entirely new set of career is shown during the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) press preview, Wednesday, Sept. 9,
materials and techniques. 2015, in New York. Associated Press
Arranged chronologically, tin cans and other materi- material,” said Anne Um- let his sculptures depart
als. “That was absolutely land, who organized the from his studio en masse,”
his exhibit begins when the brand new,” Temkin said, exhibition with Temkin. Umland said. “It’s the first
citing his “Glass of Ab- This was a new approach time the public has the
artist was 20 and made sinthe,” an edition of six in terms of working with chance to see the scope
identical bronze sculptures welding, the curators said. and range of his sculp-
more traditional sculp- each hand-painted in a He also worked with as- tures.”
different pattern and in- semblage, using found ob- The following year, MoMA
tures — modeled pieces corporating a silver spoon jects as in his “A Head of a presented “The Sculpture
and sugar cube. Warrior,” whose eyeballs of Picasso,” the first survey
in clay or plaster and then Then, after about a de- are made of tennis balls of his sculptures in North
cade of not making any from Picasso’s tennis court. America.
cast in bronze, pieces that sculptures, Picasso en- A Paris exhibition in 1966 “Picasso Sculpture” is pre-
tered the surrealist phase first introduced the public sented in collaboration
look “more like the work of — a burst of creativity to his work in the medium. with the Musee national
that again “results in new “This is the moment Picasso Picasso-Paris, which lent 40
someone like Rodin,” Tem- shapes, new forms, new agrees for the first time to pieces for the exhibition.q
kin said.
He quickly moved on and
started carving in wood af-
ter becoming aware of Af-
rican and Oceanic art.
During his cubist phase, he
created sculptures from
lumber scraps, cardboard,

“8000ers” (mountains rising everything from the geo- tours, each new chapter This photo provided by
above 8,000 meters) and to graphical characteristics introduces a new peak to Andrew Lock shows the cover
of each mountain to what summit, beginning often of the book, “Master of Thin
oxygen. It is this conquest he carries in his pack. This with a brief history of the Air,” (Arcade Publishing, an
that takes up a majority of detail combined with an mountain and wrapping imprint of Skyhorse Publishing,
the pages. Flights into Kat- explanation of the logistics up with a return to Austra- Inc.) by Andrew Lock.
mandu and subsequent of climbing enables those lia.
puja ceremonies where who stay planted at sea At times, Lock is sarcastic Associated Press
climbers request favor from level to follow the narra- in his details concerning
the mountain gods pre- tive. the ethics of fellow climb-
cede long treks into base Lock is matter-of-fact in his ers and freely exposes
camps and periods of ac- accounts and openly ad- the moral faults in those
climatization followed by mits to a lack of introspec- around him. To balance
grueling, near fatal summit tion. With that, the book is this, he also gives praise
attempts with a rotating about his often successful, where due. No matter his
cast of fellow adventure- always dangerous climbs intention, Lock’s intensity
seekers. and little else. A scant few remains constant through-
However, this mountaineer sentences early on chron- out the book as he relies
isn’t simply a thrill-seeker. icle a marriage and di- on a combination of expe-
He is a student of his pas- vorce, and another hand- rience, strength, grit, deter-
sion and passes along his ful of paragraphs detail mination and intuition to
knowledge of the craft to his life while not in nature. get him up and down the
readers, breaking down Aside from these brief de- Himalayas and beyond.q