Luciano Fabro

[don dougan <dondougan@zzzzzzzz>]

Hi Bill,

" . . . the roller . . .  rode on a bed of flour."

and

" Fabro might have been pleased that the work
broadly slipped the confinement of being viewed
as an art
object . . . "

That is great (that it was flour, I mean)!  I must have
misinterpreted it when viewing and just assumed it
was marble dust.  The idea that it was flour conjures
up a whole new set of ideas for my (or the viewer's)
delectation.

I think that we (as artists) often find ourselves wonderfully
amused by the responses to our work, and some go to
great lengths find out that response.  Some do it more
simply, however -- I know a sculptor who I observed
installing a large complex piece in a small but very high-
traffic public park in downtown Atlanta.  He had to have a
cherry picker and a couple of workers to help install the
large wood, aluminum, and steel cable piece.  When passers-by
asked him if he was the artist he would say, "Hell no, I'm just
paid to install the thing" so he could hear their honest
response to the work.

I sure Fabro stopped and listened to some of the tourists
there to see the David.  He does seem to enjoy the rich 'flavors'
of the stone -- the distinctions between sensation, poetry and
object blurs.
Thank you!

Mangia!  Mangia!  Mangia!
Don