European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The americas enter at the three works. Models of two sculptures demonstrate the ingenious technique monumental and the Rickey s works and dimension Ance and i in in George Rickey an american in Berlin. You can say my material is  i m not trying to represent anything is photos by Ted Rohde stainless steel slabs the movement of time sure about 7 feet along Hie isolation does have advantages i feel 1 can really get Homework  George Warren Rickey smiled As he stood amid the orderly clutter of his West Berlin studio with its High and White washed Walls. Surrounding him on makeshift work benches and stools were scale models of mysteriously moving Metal  sketches and raw material Bills were tacked on the Walls and in one by Peter Kuhrt staff writer Corner a Helper Laboured Over the trick details of an intricate construction. In Short the place looked very much the Domain of an artist deeply caught up in his work and quietly resentful of Al intrusion. Rickey a master of american contemporary sculpture and the driving Force in what is known As kinetic sculpture an the movement movement had been in Berlin Only since  had Corne on the invitation of the City and its Berlin artists program the most recent celebrity in a Long list of american and other foreign artists who have taken advantage of the unique Opportunity to live and work there for a least a year. The Rickey he brought his wife edit along arrived with Little baggage. Except for some Basic tools All the special equipment required by a sculptor work ing with metals was left Back Home atthe farm studio at East Chatham two i "r1" bowing gently 01del to demonstrate the effect Many of the artist s kinetic wrote one critic May have or among ingenious weather vane elegantly upon rooftops but my constructions do far More than directions of the wind Thev joyously aware of  Rickey his analytical t.81ikTmind inseparable from the artist s by ignation explained his Art As Piryt Anfind the possible. " i find myself concentrating Mortland More on problems that Deal in ten of movement in measurement of the said gesturing with his Broad Hancl to make a Point. You can say my material is  unlike Many of his colleagues abhors fancy essentially mean titles that would Only baffle and ithe viewer. I m not trying to represent l. He said emphatically. The titles for j objects could come straight from Isears Roebuck Catalon As far As 11  1907 at South Bend ind searched Long for his True  earned Bachelor and master s Fol Grees in modern history in Scotland Wengland lived and studied in euro taught Art and history and tried his Hail at writing before he constructed his we Mobile in 1945 while serving in,theu4air corps. Over the next two decades established himself As a major american sculptor to Many critics the most important of his generation. M wrote Peter Selz the director of Tel University of California Art museum to Berkeley in conjunction with  in the fall of 1966 at the Core ran gallery of Art Washington . Unlike sculptor Alexander Caw however Rickey was from the vent ginning More concerned with the org Sov Iza Tion of movement itself than weft shapes of the moving parts and i forms appear More mechanical Baa Well known free form kidney shape n voted by Calder. While Calder s organic shapes Pended from wires approximate naw Rickey set out to investigate the behaviour of movement  from Colo ruling stained window Glass and Chrome Rickey moved and pendulum exit ".menls, Juji then expressed in Basic Geometric m such As lines rings and p Anes nowadays the sculptor uses is steel almost exclusively. K it is a Tough material to a Fol Page 12 this Leafy Mobile is anniversary gift for Rickey s wife. The stars and stripes the to went of tune. Monday