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Article: Georges Jeanclos at Garth Clark.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Georges Jeanclos is a French figurative sculptor who died last spring in Paris. He was also, by report, a well-loved teacher, traveler and raconteur. Jeanclos made small figures and groups of figures in a warm, unglazed, gray terracotta. His technique was to join slip-cast heads and hands to thin, ragged slabs of clay, arranged in a variety of ways to form the figure's clothing and by implication, its body underneath. The clothing itself takes the form of loose wraps or cloaks or even just layers of rags and blankets. The sculptor formed his clay slabs as would a pastry chef, folding and rolling out the clay repeatedly. These many layered blankets of clay shrank and cracked ...