SCHÖFFER, Nicolas

Though Schoffer is commonly regarded as among the most distinguished European Kinetic sculptors, his work is hardly seen in the United States and, worse, rarely written about in English. Schöffer belonged to a group of Parisian artists, gathered around the Denise René Gallery in the late 1950s, who appropriated industrial methods as a prerequisite to eliminating the purported conflict between science and art. Alastair Mackintosh speaks of Schöffer's pieces having two parts: a solid sculptural core...