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Show Mqpfles ffromm I&A(D Style vs. fashion RDT to begin home season The Newspaper Thursday, February 25, 1982 Page B3 by Corke Pepper What's the latest fashion in art? Pop? Conceptual art? Wrong. The current market favors image paintings (as opposed to nonobjective), sculpture and photography with a contemporary slant. The pendulum has swung back from the rusty junk art of the '50s, the groovy "happenings" of the '60s, and the sprawling site-specific monuments of the '70s. Todays collectors favor "timeless" art for investment. However, tomorrow's collectors might revert back to the Ashcan school of the early 1900s. What is fashion? Should we consider it in our appraisals? Fashion is ambiguous. It stimulates change at the same time as it regulates it. The result is a composite-stylishness composite-stylishness rather than style. In art, style is lasting. Fashion is not. Style is important in evaluating the work of an artist. When we jury work at the Kimball Art Center, we consider style seriously. Students and hobby painters usually lack an identifying style, an individuality in their work. Professional artists have developed one. When we review a selection of a developing artist's work, we are likely to detect a different influence in each of his submissions maybe a touch of Rembrandt in one, a bit of the student's current instructor in another. It takes a long time and a lot of experimentation before an artist finds himself in his work. When he does, each painting in a gallery show devoted to his work will carry his stamp. The artist has achieved a style. The current show featuring Georgopoulos is a good example. This does not mean that style is static. Look at the variety of periods that Picasso created. An artist who perfects one style and pursues it throughout his career may be a victim of arrested growth. Learning about art is an absorbing experience. It's a bit like learning to enjoy a new game. Until you know what the play is about, it can be boring. Once you've acquired a familiarity with the game, however, you're involved. Our prime motivation in the KAC gallery is to introduce to our community the best of what's going on in art. We want you involved. The new show scheduled to open in the Main Gallery March 7 is one worth planning ahead to see. A famous Spanish artist who now lives in Palm Springs will be showing in Utah for the first time. His name is Manual de Arce. His work hangs in the significant collection of the F. Herbert Hoovers of San Francisco and has been featured in Architectural Digest. When you see his marvelous drawings and the subtle use of color with which he portrays the Southwest, you will understand how he fell in love at first sight with this country so like his native Spain. De Arce's work is shown in two of the West's most prominant galleries in Los Angeles and Scottsdale. He will be here Sunday afternoon for his gallery show opening. We are proud to have him at KAC. Along with the colorful De Arce drawings will be exhibited eighteen Western bronze sculptures by Lorenzo Ghiglieri. Among these will be one lent to us from the Reagan collection. Ghiglieri is the sculptor singled out by Forbes Magazine as the most promising for investment. As if those two internationally recognized artists weren't enough for a sensational show, we also will be exhibiting ceramics in the lower gallery by our very own David Fernandez, whose reputation is firmly established in his medium. On the walls in this same gallery will be featured a collection of marvelously original rugs handwoven by a single family in a village just north of Oaxca, Mexico. Even though the dyes are from natural earth products, the designs are not all ethnic. One amusing example is a reproduction of the native's impression of Matisse's "Blue Nude." We promise you an outstanding show next weekend. Please don't miss it. The Repertory Dance Theatre will open its 1982 subscription series with performances per-formances Feb. 26 and 27 in Kingsbury Hall on the University Uni-versity of Utah campus. The concert, entitled "Recent "Re-cent Innovations Inflat-ables", Inflat-ables", is about artistic collaboration between architects archi-tects and dancers, according to Kay Clark, RDT's artistic director. This concert is also about plastic. In 1970, RDT and Professor Profes-sor of Architecture Kazuo Matsubayashi created "The Plastic Fantastic Mother" in which a gymnasium-sized, inflated plastic bubble was danced around, on and in by the dancers of RDT. For the current concert Professor Matsubayashi, along with Diane Miller and Bernard Dooley, have created a number of inflatable sculptural sculp-tural pieces that the dancers have incorporated into the choreography in a unique fashion. For "Waves", choreographed choreo-graphed by Kathryn Posing and premiered at last year's "Energy" concert, plastic forms a stunning environmental environ-mental set for the work, adding a subtle shimmer and spatial scope to the work rather than distracting from the lushness of the basic movement. The premiere of "Saran", created by Linda C. Smith, Marina Harris and Carolyn Wood, is a process piece combining three disparate elements: dancers; architects; archi-tects; and a recorded voice telling us data on the history of plastic. "Buck and Wing", also a premiere, is the extravaganza extrava-ganza of the evening. A wacko, science fiction ballet supposedly set in 1958, "Buck and Wing" was choreographed chore-ographed by the eleven dancers of RDT and orchestrated orches-trated into a common theme by Artistic Director Kay Clark. The plot takes Buck, danced by Joel Kirby, and Wing, danced by Ford Evans space defenders extraordinairefrom extraordi-nairefrom a school prom in 1958, where Debbie gets swallowed by an invading plastic worm, through a series of magical planets. The dancers dance and cavort with floating sculpture sculp-ture and even sing with the musical score which includes in-cludes not only Beethoven but also songs from the late 1950s. The action of "Buck and Wing" is furthered at times through the use of International Interna-tional Sign Language, developed de-veloped for the deaf but used in this case as a replacement replace-ment for the traditional mime used in balletic pantomime panto-mime and traditional story ballets. The concert will start at 8 p.m. both evenings with a matinee Saturday at 2 p.m. The matinee will be shortened short-ened and narrated as well as signed for the hearing impaired. im-paired. Please contact RDT at 581-6702. Tickets can be obtained by calling the RDT offices or at the Kingsbury Hall box office. SBS8I Training sessions for all new KPCW volunteers will begin this Monday, March 1st in the Memorial Building. All applicants should be present for this initial meeting. Plan on attending even it you have not been contacted by the station. Wnimepire fw by Hick Lanman Weathering the wine country The rain splattered madly off the blacktop as we headed north out of San Francisco toward Santa Rosa. Palm trees shook wildly in the wind as California continued to be deluged by a winter of record rain. We were headed for the wine country and our destination of Geyserville clearly illustrated the ubiquitous nature of premium varietal wine grapes. No longer is the term, "Wine Country" solely reserved for those inland valleys surrounding Napa and Sonoma. Dashfrig 'qukikly between raindrops,11 W first sampled the wares of Geyser Peak winery. For some time now, abundant praise has surfaced regularly for their sparkling wine. We sampled their most recent bottling, a non-vintage, and found it exceptional. Quite dry, it closely resembled the traditional French Champagnes in style and character. Reasonably priced for a quality sparkling wine, the $8 price tag did not seem excessive. We, of course, took a bottle along for fortification against the rain. Later in our trip we purchased another Geyser Peak product, which sadly, could not claim the same high accolades. Would you believe a six-pack of Burgundy? In previous issues of Winepress we have mentioned the experimental market for canned wine. My first encounter occured in the wine section of a Monterey supermarket where I came nose to can with a Burgundy six-pack complete with the plastic rings. Canned under the name of Summit Wine, the label suggested I try the wine cold. I did. Perhaps you can imagine a watery-colored liquid that grows more acidic when warmed. That shall suffice as my review. Such sordid asides excused, we now return to the rains of Geyserville. A short jaunt from that town is the village of Healdsburg and the Simi Winery. We sampled their Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfan-del Zinfan-del and Sauvignon Blanc, all excellent wines with a great deal of character and spirit. The Cabernet was a 1979 and while still young, bore the trademarks of a good wine, though probably not as great as the 1978. Simi's wines are generally more expensive than those of Geyser Peak or the nearby Dry Creek, the latter representing better bargains. While both Simi and Geyser Peak are technically in Sonoma County, they remain outside of the traditional wine-growing area. Their location, directly north of San Francisco, takes its character from the Russian River that flows along a diagonal path to the Pacific. The vineyards of this region experience cooler temperatures and more moisture (usually as fog), than their cousin further inland such as Sebastiani. Norti the Russian River is the Mendocino area, ,)idly achieving fame for its wines and t the east, Lake Country, stretching north the Napa Valley. San- Rosa provides an excellent base for touring and tasting in this area; with its abundant accommodations. The Los Robles Ix)dge, about a mile north of town, has beautiful rooms and an historic setting among some of the original palms planted in the area. After a visit to Simi in Healdsburg, stop by the Souverain Restaurant, an integral part of the Souverain Winery. Lunch and dinner are S( rved daily in a charming setting designed around a changing display of art, both local and regional. Mud slides eventually drove us from Santa Rosa further inland for a brief stop in the Napa Valley. Working our way glass by glass southward, we stopped in Yountville for a quick appraisal of the Bordeaux House. A small, yet luxurious inn, created by the owners of the Burgundy House (reviewed in Winepress, June 4, 1981), the Bordeaux House is the perfect setting for any romantic couple. Mary and Bob Keenan have designed an elegant red brick inn with wine colored carpets, camel upholstered furniture and any private balconies set just above the vineyards. Each day your room is set with a hew bottle of wine allowing you to sip while the sun sets upon the golden glow of Chardonnay grapes. Alas, this time the inn was full, (as it is apt to be on a popular weekend), so we headed south to Monterey County, an area of sprawling vineyards and turbulent ocean. Many wineries north of San Francisco now own vineyards in this idyllic setting that seems especially kind to the myriad Riesling varieties. You can base yourself in Salinas (home to John Steinbeck), but we prefer Monterey or Carmel. Perhaps the prettiest inn in Carmel is the Carriage House with only twelve rooms. Each has a fireplace, large brass bed and a television, set unobtrusively away in a French wardrobe closet. A breakfast of juice, croissants and coffee is included in the price of your room and second floor rooms have sunken bath tubs. Most important is the refrigerator located in the vanity area, a perfect spot for your wine acquisitions. Reservations may be made by calling 1-408-625-2585. Plan well in advance; a member of Inns by the Sea, the Carriage House books well ahead of time, especially for holidays. Wine accompanied our meal in Carmel that first evening. The selection was a 1979 Firestone Vineyard Johannesberg Riesling. This highly touted vineyard, owned by the scion of the Firestone family, lived up easily to its reputation. The Riesling was the best I've had from California, rivalling several German Mosels and possessing the great fruitiness of those Washington State Rieslings Ries-lings we have frequently mentioned. A glass of "vin ordinare" at the bar before dinner gave us an opportunity to sample Taylor California Cellars Chablis. We found it a likable wine, without a great deal of character, but certainly not offensive to the palate. It had pleasant bouquet and for a budget jug wine represents a reasonable value. Suffice to say however that the Firestone Riesling provided a very sharp contrast. Several Monterey County vineyards are worth visiting and the number is growing. Chalone is set on a mountainside in the Gavilan Range, east of the Salinas Valley. It was established in 1966. All irrigation water is hauled by truck to the vineyards and the Israeli drip system of watering is employed, slowly supplying the grapes from above. Several excellent wines are produced and a visit will provide some pleasurable drinking. Mirassou also owns several vineyards in the area, although their production facilities are further northern near San Jose. Both Monterey Vineyards (owned by Coca Cola) and Monterey Penninsula Vineyards may be visited, the latter by appointment only. Several of these have also established tasting rooms in Carmel and Monterey, but to capture the true flavor of this growing wine country a visit to the wineries is a must. All offer the perfect place to stay clear of the rain. Newspaper Classified Advertising doesn't cost ...IT PAYS! S Poll no ftIO-OH-M VUII U?. -JtJ JJ IT Life at the top starts at the ground floor. - .,glllL mnw A At the new American Towers we want to show you around from the ground up. Take the first step today come and visit our fully-decorated model condominium located at the American Plaza III at 47 West Second South, or call American Tower Marketing at 359-8602. It's a ground floor opportunity to get an overall view of life at the top. American Towers: The city at your feet. in i it i m I it lHi II 'X 'I s" m te if''-' " " ' " " """" " if--,,. 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