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<< Return to list of essays and reviews
"...continues to devise imaginative ways to enliven basic geometry." The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 1993 An excerpt from the review of the: by Edward J. Sozanski, Inquirer Art Critic ... The principal attraction this time is the constructed wood sculpture of Fritz Dietel, who continues to devise imaginative ways to enliven basic geometry. In the past, Dietel has often improvised on a form that resembles a flower bud to explore the spatial implications of inside/outside. His section of Challenge #2 includes two such pieces that are much more linear and open than any he has shown before. One of these, Prelude II, exposes the elaborate process of lamination and shaping that Dietel uses; it's exposed because the artist has left this piece unpainted. The other "bud" piece is closed form with another, smaller one inside, like a ship in a bottle. Dietel first broke symmetry with tight spirals such as the elegant wall piece included here. The pegged lapstrake construction not only contributes to its formal appeal, it suggests a connection with boats and, by extension, with the sea. The most exciting pieces are two larger wall sculptures in which he has extruded spirals into fluid ribbons. The sense of architecture has given way to an evocation of motion -- in one case up the wall and in the other down... Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial
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