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Strength and beauty of Though renowned for dramatic understated technique at the sculptures of cardinals with Hanover Gallery in London in the simplified vestments and for early 1950s, went to study with him the bas reliefs of his Doors of and became his assistant. Death for St Peter’s Basilica in His essay includes an evocative women from all faiths Rome, Giacomo Manzù was in description of the ramshackle the fore of anti-Fascist circles in studios behind Milan station “with JW3 exhibits silk printed portraits of nominees for What Women Believe project Milan in the 1930s and a life-long the smoke of the kilns billowing sympathiser with communism. out through the rafters, and the here used to be a hoarding Moreover this celebrated Italian molten metal glowing in the dark”. in Harlesden in the 1970s I Portrait of sculptor was drawn as much to the He recollects the short stocky which recorded the Selma James by sensual world as to that Manzù standing beside a tall Tever-escalating amounts Ruth Corney of the spirit and made slender figure of his model Inge, a rightfully due for the entwined figures infused ballerina who had just come into unpaid labour, mostly by women, with a playful character his life posing at a summer school. that underpins waged employment: verging on the bawdy. On the first day Manzù placed a housework, childcare and smiling. This dichotomy rose on the dais and forbade her This controversial display, which is explained well by to model for students; she became fused fact and fantasy to make British sculptor John his second wife. Drawings include passers-by question the Hale in his essay engaging studies of Inge and an circumstances of their lives, was for the Estorick arresting self-portrait. part of the International Wages for Collection’s Housework Campaign founded by exhibition I Until April 3 at 39a Canon- activist and author Selma James. Giacomo Manzù: bury Square N1, Wednesday to Her many achievements include Sculptor and Saturday 11am to 6pm, Sunday co-founding the Crossroads Women’s Draughtsman, noon to 5pm, £5 and conces- Centre in and which includes sions. John Hale gives a gallery publicising ujamaa, the form of some 50 talk at 3pm next Saturday, encouraged by sculptures. March 5. Free with admis- in . James, Hale sion that day. who was born in New York and encountered now lives in Kilburn, is one of the Manzù’s inspirational women from diverse sensitive, I Large Seated Cardi- communities in London whose nal 1983 by Giacomo stories are the basis of What Women Manzù Courtesy Gal- Believe, a collaborative art and oral leria d’Arte Maggiore history project. G.A.M., Bologna This will culminate in an online gallery, a zine by design collective OOMK, One of My Kind, and a touring installation. The launch, open to all and free, is on Saturday at JW3, the London Jewish Cultural most people – attentive, receptive, different from themselves. Centre, in Hampstead. The women alert and vibrant.” As Corney was For the exhibition 3FF were chosen from nominations by a about to photograph her, someone commissioned an immersive range of people including schoolgirls came in with a laptop with Nyerere’s installation from Tessa Brown, and community centre workers. daughter Anna on Skype. “Selma an artist with a background in All nominees were recorded by was so animated and excited to talk bespoke garment construction. It’s a Dartmouth Park photographer to her and after saying goodbye her suspended textile dome with seating Ruth Corney, best known for images face retained such thoughtfulness - I underneath offering an opportunity of swimming places including was glad I hadn’t hurried her.” for new encounters. At the launch, at the Heath ponds and lido. Twelve The project is supported by Arts 8.30pm, visitors can meet and hear women will feature in the exhibition Council and co-ordinated the stories of some women featured, and Corney printed their portraits by 3FF, the Three Faiths Forum. and have their own oral history and on silk because she felt the material This organisation aims to build portrait created by OOMK. shares qualities with the subjects: relationships between people of strength and beauty. different faiths and beliefs. It creates I What Women Believe runs for a Describing her visit to James safe spaces in schools, universities week from next Sunday (March 6) at she said “What struck me most and the wider community where 341-351 Finchley Road NW3 and will was how interested Selma was in people can engage with questions of be at the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation me. I’m certain she is like that with belief and identity and meet people in Shoreditch on March 19 and 20. Artwork portents a live show on acrobats Polar selfies frozen in time

The larger of the two current shadowed specialists such as Tuesday is the exhibitions at Camden Arts a concrete beautician. His cast deadline for art Centre is Rose English’s A objects are moved daily around submissions for Premonition of the Act (pictured a room at the discretion of the Polar self Portraits, right) in which she reconfigures front of house team, activating an unusual set of elements of a yet-to-be-realised and reordering the space between exhibitions to be held performance, Lost in Music. A works. I suspect these nuances in a French château recorded version of English’s were lost on the four visitors that during the Boz’Art en libretto for 10 voices and I observed doing a tour in under Baz’Art Festival, an percussion, scored by long-time a minute while I examined the Arctic art gallery, and collaborator Luke Stoneham, was concrete works. In a live act, breath an Antarctic science at the core of the exhibition. After rider, on March 13, Roithmayr will base. This Creatives this closes next Sunday there will investigate the acts of inscribing without Borders be two debut live performances. and invoking through shared project is curated It is part of a project in experience. by Hampstead artist gestation for a decade, which Zsuzsanna Ardo. combines a circus, an art and glass blowing, shattering and I These events are part of Post- Artists are invited to create a self- I Self portrait by Eric Tournaire installation and a chamber opera flying. script, an afterword to the exhibi- portrait which goes beyond the use for Chinese acrobatics past The other exhibition is Florian tions and artist’s residency from of landscape as backdrop to humans to be the London space connecting and future. The music traces Roithmayr’s with, and, or, without. March 9 to 13. For details of live by exploring our relationship with with this project. trajectories of their movements – He is interested in labour that acts, films and talks, visit polar nature. Venues of all types are the body and the breath, singing renders itself invisible and has camdenartscentre.org. welcome to get in touch if they want I Further details: ardo.org.