New York Herald Tribune – Review
John Gruen
Irena Martens “Castagno “, 43 E. 80th
This is an exhibition of dolls –but with a difference The dolls are personages of wild and woolly design, Created by an artist who sees these creatures as disquieting symbols of a disquieting age. Often outrageously garbed; sometimes deformed, the toy aspect f these works is simply a matter of first-impression. When incorporated in box constructions, the dolls assume a strange “Balthusian” aura- pointing to an imagination as florid as it is fertile.
