di SUVERO, Mark
(*1933)
di SUVERO, Mark (18 September 1933). Born in Shanghai of Italian-Jewish parents, di Suvero moved with his family to California in 1941 and majored in philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Taking off from David Smith ’s sense of sculpture as an outdoor art and Franz Kline ’s taste for thick lines and odd angles, di Suvero fabricated monumental sculptures initially of wood and then of scrap steel beams gathered from demolished buildings and junkyards. Asymmetrical and to the eye…