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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calendar Denmark Holiday and Leisure show Copenhagen Bella Center March 13-16. It is being held in conjunction with the caravans and equipment show. Germany free time travel fair Saa Brucken March 12-16. Camping and travel Essen March 15-23. Almond Blossom festival Neustadt Gimmel Dingen March 15-17. Great Britain Camden festival North London through March 22. Daily mail Ideal Home exhibition Earls court exhibition Center London through March 30. East Anglia Spring Antiques fair athenaeum Bury St. Edmunds through March 8. Alexandra Palace Antiques and collectors fair Alexandra Pavillion Wood Green London March 9. Chelsea Antiques fair Chelsea old town Hall London March 11-12. Gallery Denmark Copenhagen tapestries by Agnete Starup Galerie Gammel strand March 7-20. Copenhagen nordic design the Lunning prize 1951-1970,  March 7 april 20. Germany Frankfurt Spring blossoms palme Garten until March 16. Munich British railway posters 1895-1983, Deutscher museum until March 16. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 . Berlin retrospective Fred Thieler Academy of Art until March 17. Berlin modern japanese Wood carvings museum for East asian Art March 11-june 8. Model railway exhibition Brighton Center Brighton March 14-16. Hungary Budapest Spring festival Budapest March 14-23. The festival is billed As 10 Days 100 show places 1,000 events. It includes classical and Light music Ballet pantomime Art and Craft exhibitions folklore events gastronomic treats programs for the Young and sports competitions. Happenings will also spill into the neighbouring town Szentendrey and to Sopron on the austrian Border. A number of travel agents will be promoting festival visits. A program is available from inv . Box 1441, Budapest Hungary. Tel. 361-835380 or 633652. Italy traditional Farmers horse races with a Parade Meran March 31. Luxembourg pretzels Onneg throughout the country March 9. This sunday is dedicated to lovers and is celebrated with folklore events in Many towns. Young people offer a Bretzel pretzel to their beloved. In Remich Greven Macher and Cologne the celtic Prince of Hochdorf Josef Haubrich Kun Thalle until March 16. The exhibition in conjunction with the roman germanic museum of Cologne and the regional office fro the preservation of historical monuments of Baden Wurttemberge presents the richly decorated Prince s Tomb from the 6th Century . It was discovered in 1978. Among the precious burial offerings found were a Bronze lion cauldron tableware and Bronze Couch. The Only other place the items have been seen is Stuttgart. Mannheim Charles Schuch paintings and graphics Kun Thalle March 8-june 1. Great Britain London sir Joshua Reynolds Royal Academy of arts until March 31. Edinburgh egyptian landscapes City of Wasse Billig pretzels Are sold on the Market Square. A Parade led by a brass band marches through the streets. Last Day of carnival Petinge March 9. A Parade of about 2,000, with 20 floats and 15 bands marches through the streets. National artistic skating Competition Remich March 10. 12th Antiques and contemporary Art fair Luxembourg March 13-16. The Netherlands Tulip time Keuken Hof gardens at Lisse March 28-May 25. Switzerland International dog sled races Andermatt March 8-9. 18th Engadine ski Marathon St. Moritz March 9. International Zuri Marathon Zurich april 13. Deadline to enter is March 15. Contact organisations Komitee International Zuri Marathon Postrach 568, ch-8039 Zurich Switzerland. Edinburgh Art Center until March 31. Sheffield the architecture of Adolf Loos Mappin Art gallery until March 9. Italy Trapani International fair of Coral handmade jewelry Museo Pepoli through March 29. The Netherlands utrecht protestant Church interiors museum Het Catharin Convent March 10-20. Switzerland Geneva 56th International automobile Salon pal expo March 6-16. Basel trains Model 86, Fairgrounds March 8-18. London offers Art in Tottenham tube station by Gregory Jensen United press International one of Europe s most remarkable new works of Art is now on free View to anyone Riding London s subways. Get off a train and you step into a mosaic. Half the size of a football Field. Eduardo Paolozzi s exuberant mosaics at Tottenham court Road station strike the Eye like a blow. But they re Only one Sample of this internationally renowned artist s sudden High profile. Even while his subway mosaics were completed All 10,910 Square feet of them Paolozzi simultaneously was the Star of two museum shows above  is at Britain s High prestige Royal Academy of arts. It was so impressed by the subway mosaics it mounted a full scale exhibition about them and How they were made. The other is an extraordinary display a haunting mix of Paolozzi s works and those of foreign tribes called lost kingdoms and six paper Moons. But Paolozzi built like a sumo wrestler or a rotund Teddy Bear always has been prolific. He s had eight major shows in 15 months in Europe and Australia. His reputation is world wide. He is a Painter of intricate machine age canvases. But he is primarily a sculptor a prize Winner from Chicago and Pittsburgh to Ljubljana and the Venice Bien Nale Paolozzi recycles junk a cracked plate becomes a. Stripes Magazine March 6,1986 face or constructs reliefs from hundreds of bits of hand crafted Wood. Born in Scotland his father was an italian ice Cream maker Paolozzi 62, was one of pop Art s founding fathers. New York s museum of modern Art gave him a one Man show As Early As 1964. Now he s in such demand As a teacher that he spends half a month in Munich West Germany teaching sculpture and the other half in London teaching ceramics at the Royal College of Art. His enormous subway mosaics Are like his paintings bold tangled Geometric surging with color. They spread symbols Over every surface of a Complex three level station. But for sheer Novelty they hardly match lost magic kingdoms a Semi permanent show at the museum of Mankind. To form this Odd display the museum the ethnography Wing of the British museum gave Paolozzi the run of its five floor warehouse of primitive objects it has no room to show. Every Box is marvelous Paolozzi says. When you lift a lid you have no idea what to  he rummaged for three years. Finally he assembled extraordinary items an american Indian Archery target with australian aboriginal paintings a two headed magical dog studded with nails and razor Blades with ornamented human Bones from Nigeria into Small groups. But then into his groups he introduced fakes joke items and Many of his own creations. These Are unidentified and a captioned. It s up to each viewer not Only to make connections Between the juxtaposed ethnographic rarities but to relate them to Paolozzi s intricate Wood constructions. Unlike museum shows which usually provide the maximum amount of information this one is a visual crossword Puzzle for each viewer to solve. It is haunting unforgettable carrying a punch out of All proportion to its Small size. Paolozzi s subway mosaics Are almost equally Complex. Jazzy abstract and primary coloured they Are studded with visual references to the station s neighbourhood saxophones for its music stores a Chicken and hamburger for its fast food joints an egyptian panel for the nearby British museum. Always i tried to make a Bridge Paolozzi said to Contact people on a massive  not All critics were pleased. One called the mosaics Rotten Art. As intellectually uplifting As another passenger s personal  another said there is no sense of Unity no Clear  but project architect Duncan Lamb said commuters love this biggest Public work of Art in the United kingdom. They touch the mosaic As they pass As if it s something they be grown fond of he said. Most telling of All since the first of Paolozzi s mosaics was installed in 1983 they have collected no Graffiti whatever  
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