University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 18, 1976
2
'Junk' will grace campus
By SUE WILSON
Staff Writer
A twisted clutter of scrap metal is the winner's annual second annual student competition.
The sculpture was chosen last spring by eight judges from 18 entries submitted by student sculptors in a contest sponsored by SUA and the Office of Student Affairs.
The winning work, "Untitled," will greet or perhaps affront students and students in fall when it supplies an year's win at the tournament between the Kansas University and Dyce Hall.
"UNTITLED," CREATED by Paul Menneg, Greenwich, Conn., senior, uses a chain, block and tackle and scrap steel in a jumble of visual contradictions.
"The idea is based on visual puns to make a contradiction. I don't see the sculpture as very aesthetic. I see it as somewhat provocative." Menneg said.
A professor of painting and sculpture and a fine arts major, both of whom asked not to be identified, described the work as a "pile of paintings" which is poking gentle fun. The student was not.
Their mixed reactions were just what the artist ordered.
LAST YEAR'S winner, Mark Harris,
Independence, M., senior, will have to
move his sculpture. It won't be easy. The
four feet tall and weigh more than 260 pounds.
"The entries went from very precise, hard-egged geometric designs through the spectrum to very organic things," Branham said.
Harris said he would like the sculpture to stay on the KU campus. He hasn't, however, been asked to work the work, so he's concentrating on selling it or taking it to his parents' home.
Harris" "Trinity" is formed from sand-blasted, cadmium-plated hollow structural steel. The steel frames three face masks in which a mesh over a grid of cross sections of steel beams.
The winner of the competition received $200, but each sculptor was responsible for the cost of construction. Menney spent $75 on scrap steel and other materials.
His smiling candidness found favor with the judges.
MENNEG SAIQ he wanted those who looked at the sculpture to react. A response even if negative, is better than indifference, and could in a quiet voice backed by a soft smile.
Original plays are always question marks. There's nothing to go on, no previous reviews to look up, no script to go over, no reputation preceding them. The first performance of American College Theatre Festival's original playwrighting competition, was an unusually mature and well crafted play. "Pieces," on the other hand, was sadly derivative and lacking in imagination. It was a bit odd that as of returns of "Love, American Style."
Theater ...
The 1976-77 season that begins in a few weeks will be as entertaining and as interesting as the theater always is. It's the art of building something that designers take with a production that make it worthwhile. It's the unmatted intensity and intimacy that the theater provides that makes it worthless. It's the uncertainty of how it's all going to work out that makes it so interesting.
A variety of entries was submitted to the judges, ranging from the simple to the ambitious, the small to the large, Eldredge said.
ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
Besides Branham and Eldredge, the judges for this year's contest were William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs; Elden Tefft, professor of painting and sculpture; Michael Ott, associate professor of painting; Paula Lerner, board member; Howard Kollman, Union Gallery curator; and Katherine Gela, SUI advisor.
1208 Kentucky 843-3637
MASSES
Richard Branham, associate professor of design and one of the judges, said the judges were impressed with Menge because he was a good sense of humor about his work."
"IT HAS visual power as a piece of sculpture. It is appropriately sized and scaled to the site and presents no special engineering problems," another judge, Charles Eldredge, associate professor of art history, said.
The judges also considered the sculpture aristic merit and its suitability to the alter.
--imports associate store
MASSES
Sat. 5:15 p.m.
Sun. 7:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
12:00 noon
5:00 p.m.
Daily 8:00 a.m.
CONFESSION
Sat. 4-5 p.m.
7:30-8:00 p.m.
ART PRINTS and POSTERS
HUNDREDS TO CHOOSE FROM
747 Massachusetts
Gourmet guides, kitchen charts, beer posters, French nouveau, quality reproductions of old and modern masters and many more.
Pier 1
Mon. thru Sat.
9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Sun. 12 Noon-5 p.m.
WELCOME BACK KU STUDENTS
We have added four new departments of special interest to the college student.
For the latest in campus fashions-you'll find them in our JUNIOR REFLECTIONS SHOP and in our young men's PUT-TOGETHER SHOP. Visit our new complete cosmetic department for all your beauty needs.And while you're shopping, don't forget our GREEN SCENE for a plant that will brighten up any room.
There's a new look at Montgomery Ward. Visit us soon. We're located only five blocks from campus, with acres of free parking and convenient hours.
STUDENT CREDIT IS WELCOMED AND AVAILABLE.
SHOP WARDS, LAWRENCE'S COMPLETE DEPARTMENT STORE - 1721 WEST 23RD STREET - 843-4596
ACRES OF FREE PARKING - OPEN EVERY NIGHT TILL 9:00 - SUNDAY 12 TO 5