César

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César: The Sculptor Who Reimagined Everything

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In the spring of 1997, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris mounted a sweeping retrospective of César Baldaccini's work, drawing crowds who came to stand before crushed automobiles, billowing polyurethane foam, and delicate bronze insects with equal wonder. It was a fitting tribute to an artist who had spent five decades insisting that beauty was hiding inside the industrial age, waiting for someone bold enough to release it. The show reminded a new generation that César was not merely a provocateur but a poet of materials, one of the most genuinely inventive sculptors the twentieth century… Continue reading