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Barbara Chase-Riboud* [Bertha Schaefer] showed four mysterious, moving bronzes, two of which incorporated dense coils of wool and silk ropes, titled Four Monuments to Malcolm X. These evocative abstractions are powerful statements, neither specific nor polemical, 

Art News
Mar 1970

* First one-man show in New York 

but timeless. An American who lives and works in Paris, she has her work cast in London. The bronze is rich and warm. The usual bug-aboo problem of the base is obviated by hanging some of the pieces from the wall and others from discreet armatures. The curious combination of bronze and bronze-colored wool and silk rope and thread coils create a humanizing recipe of puissance and vulnerability. In addition to the Malcolm X pieces, an array of smaller works in aluminum and bronze give an exciting composite of this young sculptor's canon; a most impressive show of strength, sensitivity, vision and technical prowess. 
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