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Jacques Lipchitz a Life in Sculpture John K Document généré le 29 sept. 2021 02:14 Espace Sculpture Jacques Lipchitz A life in sculpture John K. Grande Volume 6, numéro 3, printemps 1990 URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/9788ac Aller au sommaire du numéro Éditeur(s) Le Centre de diffusion 3D ISSN 0821-9222 (imprimé) 1923-2551 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer ce compte rendu Grande, J. K. (1990). Compte rendu de [Jacques Lipchitz: A life in sculpture]. Espace Sculpture, 6(3), 43–44. Tous droits réservés © Le Centre de diffusion 3D, 1990 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ public intégré à son environnement. Mais aussi ce concept est apparu de façon définitive pour des raisons d'unicité de structure, dont l'essentiel se compose de trois parties, soit deux verticales et une horizontale, elles-mêmes génératrices de multiples JACQUES LIPCHITZ; interprétations symboliques. Portes de villes murées, de territoires délimités dans le temps et l'espace, où des hommes se sont protégés contre l'inconnu. Puis A LIFE IN SCULPTURE portes isolées dans la Cité après la destruction de ses murs d'enceinte. Portes et Arcs de tous les triomphes, ceux de Titus, de Septime Sévère, de THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Constantin, et l'Arc quadrifrons dit de Janus, et les Portes d'Asie, de Chine et de Corée. Porte de l'enfer romantiqueetdudésespoirde Rodin. Porte cubiste John K. Grande et décorative de Brancusi, et toutes ces portes grandes ou petites, ouvertes ou fermées, auxquelles nous sommes chaque jour confrontés, portes in­ I Jacques Lipchitz is a paradoxical sculptor, nombrables et toujours présentes. f one whose work has at all times confounded I critics and historians. Part of the reason for Le Symposium de Sculpture de Nagyatàd possède «r this is his unmitigated individualism, and the V#r^V un caractère de manifestation internationale et le grand nombre d'oeuvres qui y furent réalisées complete absence, later in his life, of any relation to depuis quinze ans en font un haut lieu de l'histoire contemporary developments in sculpture. de la sculpture pour cette période. Cependant, The current retrospective, curated by Alan Wilkin­ nous croyons que le choix de l'emplacement du l||Kjjl son, is the most comprehensive since the 1972 parc de sculptures ne répond pas à des critères adéquats de présentation. Situé à environ deux retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New milles de Nagyatàd, l'ensemble est en dehors des York. Spanning over 60 years of this prodigious grandes voies de communication et surtout d'un sculptors' career, it is rambling and eclectic, an centre dynamique qui justifierait un tel regroupe­ attempt by its curator to redress a much maligned fÈSà M ment de sculptures. Ainsi, l'endroit étant très peu reputation. publicise n'attire qu'un nombre restreintde visiteurs. Sir Roland Penrose once commented that Cubism On a alors l'impression que ces oeuvres de qualité was «a movement among painters towards the ayant été placées là, au hasard, ne peuvent générer 1 d'échanges culturels durables. sculptors three-dimensional problems». The suc­ cinct sculptural evidence of these intentions were ,\ Pourtant depuis quelques années, une nouvelle evident in Picasso's Head of a Woman (1909), the solution fut mise de l'avant, plus vivante, plus dy­ first Cubist sculpture, and in Boccioni's Develop­ namique et qui consiste à placer les nouvelles ment of a Bottle in Space (1913) which contain a sculptures dans la ville même de Nagyatàd, dans directness, a pure vitality of artistic exploration that des lieux publics où le sculpteur est invité à tenir we find in the most integral Cubist painting of the compte de certaines contraintes d'espace. Cette period. One of the problems of finding a historic approche est à notre avis la meilleure. Les oeuvres relevance for Lipchitz' early work is precisely that n'étant plus isolées participent à la vie urbaine. it epitomizes the language of Cubism, but exclu­ Ponctuant les espaces, elles sont les points de *&*- sively through sculpture. There is a reductive feel­ repère de toutes les circulations. Placées dans un Jacques Lipchitz, Chimène, 1930. parc, à un carrefour, ou s'intégrant à l'espace ing to much of his work, as though the artist learned Bronze (unique). H. 36,8 cm. d'édifices, ces sculptures ont une meilleure facilité the style without discovering it, adapted it without Courtesy of the Art Gallery of d'accès, leur présentation étant planifiée pour plus exploring it, using it as a kind of aesthetic Esperanto. Ontario. de visibilité. D'autre part, le bois qui est le matériau employé demande un entretien permanent, et une While for Juan Gris, with whom he worked inclose approche technique pour sa conservation est d'en association between 1916 and 1 922, sculpture was At the outset, this show docu­ peindre les surfaces comme on le fa it pour toutes les seen as a part of the painterly exploration, for ments extensively Lipchitz' early parties extérieures en bois d'une maison. Laissé Lipchitz it was his main art. In looking at the fine development as a sculptor, amid sans protection le bois ne résistera pas aux in­ selection of Lipchitz' early works on view, we feel the furor of early Cubism in Paris, tempéries. Plusieurs sculptures réalisées en chêne that he drew from Cubist prototypes in painting for il y a une dizaine d'années sont gravement dété­ where he arrived as a young Lithu­ his style, applying Picasso's persuasive regimen riorées et l'on observe le même phénomène de anian novice at the age of 18. In with a pedantic, almost academic caution. Per­ dégradation surd'autresessences. Malgré les vernis the earliest of Lipchitz' Cubist in­ haps, Lipchitz'sentiment for Picasso's new dimen­ et les huiles employés à l'origine, le bois devient spired works such as Sailor with sional vocabulary was at odds with the primeval avec le temps d'un gris plus ou moins uniforme, Guitar (1914), Cubist angles are ramenant les ensembles à une grisaille terne et expressionistforcesatwork beneath this layering of set into a fundamentally realist monotone. Pourtant, la polychromie intégrée à la Cubist style that Lipchitz adapted to the universal, sculpted form, with a kind of art sculpture agit à la fois sur la plastique et la longévité human themes of joy and suffering that would deco application of multi-faceted de l'oeuvre. preoccupy him for his entire career. In practice, his angles. The process of dimension- works bear a closer relation to those of Henri alizingform into the picture plane Nous retiendrons de ce séjour hongrois de cinq Laurens for their overt mannerist incubation of the is reversed here, and creates a semaines qu'il fut une magnifique occasion de Cubist idiom. For sheer physicality of force, and a réaliser une oeuvre monumentale. Durant ce séjour, twofold distancing of subject from hermetic balancing of mass with spatial elements, il y eut des échanges riches avec les sculpteurs reality. Lipchitz' best works express an anguish, violence participants et visiteurs mais aussi avec une popu­ lation hautement raffinée et intéressée à l'art depuis and tortured expressionism that is expressly his Detachable Figure: Seated Musi­ toujours. • own. cian (1915), a painted wood ESPACE VOL. 4 PC 3 PRINTEMPS / SPRING 1990 43 construction, reveals Lipchitz' mately reveal an indecisiveness, a lack of di­ complete assimilation into Cubist rection. It led Clement Greenberg to state non-objectivism. While it is a that Lipchitz was «unable to develop a prin­ superb little work, the form still ciple of inner consistency; none of the differ­ seems to be illustrative and de­ ent paths he takes seem to lead to the next 4 ROBERT scriptive, rather than part of a one». Curator Alan Wilkinson suggests that functional, expressive aesthetic. this inconsistency was merely the evidence of an explosive imagination, an unattain­ Lipchitz continued to adapt and able vitality that was the driving force behind PRENOVAULT transform the Cubist vocabulary Lipchitz' vision. The comprehensive, con- throughout the 20's. It was at this sistentforms of Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp time, in his small-scale bronzes, or Henry Moore are nowhere evident in AT THE CANAL called "Transparents", most of Lipchitz' work. Whether this is a weakness or which were unique casts, that an astrengthmayfinallydependon how strongly inherent vitality, a stronger col­ our view of the history of art must rely on a COMPLEX lage exploration of positive and basic consistency of individual aesthetic as a negative values, material massand measure of relevance. void begins to appear. He be­ Nov. 1-30,1989 comes lessofaCubist stylist, more Of all the later works, it is the small bronzes, completely the master of his own the spontaneous interpretive allegorical creative destiny and later wrote pieces that seem the most fascinating. They Kim Sawchuk that he was «escaping from the are imaginative, delicate forms, and have iron rule of syntactical cubist dis­ none of the Baroque gaudiness, the justifica­ 2 cipline». Lipchitz describes tion of material mass for its own sake, that we Chimène, one of the last of the find in the later monuments such as Notre- | If obert Prenovault has set himself a chal- "Transparents" executed in 1930 Dame de Liesse (New Harmony, Indiana) P WÇ lenge.
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