UPTOWN

MARINO MARINI -- Auslander, 1078 Madison Ave. at 81st. Man-on-horse formed Marini: as a youth he admired Donatello's equestrian Gattamelata, as a man he observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April 25.

GEORGES BRAQUE. The artistic revolutionary who, with another young firebrand named Picasso created cubism and I altered the course of modern art, died last year at 81. Four galleries bring together the largest showing of his work ever --some 200 paintings and sculptures on loan from American collections and benefiting the Public Education Association. --

> At Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th: fauve and cubist works. > At Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th: paintings from the '20s. > At Rosenberg, 20 East 79th: oils from the '30s.

-- At Knoedler, 14 East 57th: the '40s on through 1957, along with 25 sculptures. All through May 2.

SATISH GUJRAL -- Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Gujral once set off from India for Mexico to be a muralist for the masses a la Siqueiros. Having no walls on which to make his metaphors, he fragmented his murals into paintings, has been doing so since (although now he is doing a mural in ceramic for the World's Fair's Indian Pavilion). He shows his mentor's strong sense of design -- and a good deal more mystery -- in decorative, richly hued paintings. Through April 25.

ROY GUSSOW -- Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. The streamlined slabs and slippery surfaces of modern abstracts in stainless steel, forged bronze and copper by a teacher at Pratt Institute who studied under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. Most are on loan. Through April 25.

JACQUES VILLON -- Thaw, 50 East 78th. Fifteen paintings trace a life-long love affair with art, from a youthful Portrait of the Artist, who had not yet courted cubism, to The Environs of Rouen, when he had wedded it to his own luminous impressionism. Through April 18.

CORNEILLE -- Lefebre, 47 East 77th. The shows by Corneille and Appel (see below) are close together and similar in interest. Both are Dutch painters, founders of Cobra, whose styles spring from the explosive spontaneity of that postwar persuasion. Corneille is a little tamer, perhaps because he chooses nature as his forte. His shapes sprawl in the lazy rhythms of an octopus treading water in a bright-colored sea of protoplasmic forms. Through April 18.

GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO -- Cordier&Ek-strom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. New York's first look at this Italian's contribution to the Scribble school. Baruchello zips around Rome with the dash of -a young man going places; in painting he shows more caution. He draws little bugs, squiggles, squooshes on Plexiglas or on translucent white canvases in the vacant perspective of flyspecked windowpanes, makes them move in startling patterns--as though the insect were still buzzing around. Through April 25.

KAREL APPEL--Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th. Appel pummels the canvas in violent combat with his images, beating his nudes into a submission that they mock with their startling audacity. At Jackson, 32 East 69th, he provides his candid figures with saxophones, pearl-handled pistols, and telephones for eyes, ears and mouths. Both through April 25.

ROBERT HENRI--Chapellier, 954 Madison Ave. at 75th. Henri was best as a portraitist: with two circlets of emerald green he puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April 30.

JAMES KEARNS--Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts shows his versatility in pieces sculpted in bronze, fiber glass and concrete, and in paintings done in oil on canvas and on Masonite. His cast females are pathetically pudgy, his painted figures equally grotesque. "I flatter people verbally, not pictorially," says Kearns. But a fine sense of balance and depth wraps them in redeeming grace. Through April 18.

ROBERT COOK--Sculpture Center, 167 East 69th. An American who works in Rome, Cook sculpts in beeswax, then casts in bronze. His sinewy sculptures spin in bright, convoluted rhythms. Thirty works. Through April 30.

GEORGE SUGARMAN--Radich, 818 Madison Ave. at 68th. Sugarman piles up whorls, commas, calligraphs, and his painted wood sculptures go scrambling into space like a two-year-old clambering up a flight of stairs. They suddenly stop--and leave the next step to the imagination. Through April 11.

WILLIAM BRICE--Alan, 766 Madison Ave. at 66th. The son of Broadway's Funny Girl Fanny Brice seems to have inherited his mother's fancy for art but not her sense of humor. His tragic nudes used to flower like human vegetation in a symbolic embrace with nature; now they languish outside the bleak windows of the artist's studio. Oils and drawings. Through April 18.

PAUL MATTHEWS--Zabriskie, 36 East 61st. The first one-man show by a young New Yorker who takes his titles from James Joyce, puns with lines much as the Irish writer did with words. His major painting is the Temptation of St. Anthony; the poor saint looks absolutely abashed by the frantics of the lewd nudes who surround him in a sea of fleshy tones, raw red mouths and undulating shapes. Twenty-seven oils. Through April 18.

JUVENAL SANSO--Weyhe, 794 Lexington Ave. at 61st. Born in Spain, raised in the Philippines, a resident of Paris, Sanso, 34, is still on the move, has made two trips around the world. His lonely landscapes of Brittany, Manila and Manhattan omit the human presence, make nature the actor in richly detailed but desolate dramas. Colored ink paintings and prints. Through April 30.

ZAO WOU-KI--Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th. A Chinese expatriate in Paris, Zao Wou-ki makes a meeting place for yin and yang, feeds planes of pastoral stillness into moils of inner frenzy. Through April 18.

MIDTOWN

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW -- Viviano, 42 East 57th. More than 300 of his works are at the Gallery of Modern Art (see below), but a rarer glimpse of the artist is given here. Friends have lent some 100 water-colors and drawings, many never exhibited, some personally inscribed. Included: Night and Day, a 1926 gouache-and-sand once owned by Gertrude Stein, who discovered him; portraits of Esme, the little girl in Hide-and-Seek; the cranial lattice work of his later years. Through April 18.

THEMES FROM SHAKESPEARE -- Salpeter, 42 East 57th. A palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April 30.

MONDRIAN, DE STIJL AND THEIR IMPACT -- Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th.

When Mondrian set about destroying space, he replaced it with the golden-section grillwork that formed the cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through May 16.

MARIO SCHIFANO -- Odyssia, 41 East 57th.

The impatient brush of a young Italian new realist whips enamel paint around melanges of brown wrapping paper and canvas, laying waste a work of art with the gusto of a wild wind assailing a wall plastered with posters. Through May 2.

JEAN IPOUSTEGUY -- Loeb, 12 East 57th.

Split skulls and bashed-in faces underscore the theme of violence in this French sculptor's first one-man show in New York.

Ipousteguy sculpts with a sure sense of balance and a sharp eye for basic paradoxes and brutal ironies, e.g., The Crab and the Bird which captures in one movement the rapport between crawling and flying. Fourteen black bronzes. Through April 18.

MARY BAUERMEISTER -- Bonino, 7 West 57th. In the forefront of the frantic search for new materials, a young German artist creates sensuous surfaces with polished pebbles, drinking straws, hollow shells, wood. She proves with "linen sculptures" that look like modern abstractions of Grandma's old quiltwork that she can sew -- and prettily, too. Through April 18.

VICTOR DE VASARELY -- Pace, 9 West 57th.

The Hungarian-born painter, now a Parisian, recently won a Guggenheim award.

His calculated geometries are mechanical but their constant variation keeps the eye on the move, and his cool color harmonies send off winnowing waves of motion, like stones dropped in water. Through April 18.

JACK YOUNGERMAN -- Parsons, 24 West 57th. Born in Cassius Clay's hometown, he shares some of the Louisville slugger's expansiveness. His enormous abstractions become arenas where mammoth forms-within-forms wage war with raw colors for attention and space. Through April 25.

ALAIN JACQUET--Iolas, 15 East 55th. Paris' Pop prodigy had a painting, done when he was 22, in the Guggenheim's recent worldwide survey, and thus was its youngest artist. Here he spans centuries and continents, melding old and new with art about art: he copies the classics (Praxiteles, Botticelli, Michelangelo), jazzes them up in modern trappings, calls them camouflages. Through April 11.

RAPHAEL SOYER--Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. With fine-line shadings and blank areas of light, Soyer brings out the fullness of body and the spiritual vacuity of New York girlhood. Past teen-age but not quite adult, his would-be students and sometime art ist's models display the wistful grace of instinctive, empty gestures. Sixteen etchings. Through May 2.

MUSEUMS

JEWISH--Fifth Ave. at 92nd. A retrospective of Pop Painter Jasper Johns: his Flags and Targets, along with more than 100 other paintings, drawings, sculptures, lithographs. Through April 12.

GUGGENHEIM--Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among the 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June 28.

METROPOLITAN--Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The museum supplements its large collection of Rembrandt paintings (33, including the $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer) with a selection of the Dutch master's prints. "World's Fairs--the Architecture of Fantasy" makes a retrospective visit to 16 past expositions by means of prints, photographs, posters and souvenirs.

FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART--62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane to Sebastiano Ricci. Through April 30.

GALLERY OF MODERN ART--Columbus Circle at 59th. The Circle is enhanced by Huntington Hartford's new museum, which provides an intimate setting for his less-than-dazzling personal acquisitions and for a mammoth exhibition of the late Russian-born Painter Pavel Tchelitchew's surrealistic puzzle pictures, bloodshot-eyed portraits and "interior landscapes" of the head. Through April 19.

MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART--15 West 54th. Objects from the Massim region of New Guinea and 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through May 10.

WHITNEY--22 West 54th. Jack Tworkov, 63, head of Yale's art school and old-line abstract expressionist, gets the retrospective once-over in an exhibition that begins with a 1948 Figure garbed in cubist subtleties, proceeds to the brilliant reds and blues that slash through his 1963 oils. Seventy paintings, collages, drawings. Through May 3.

BROOKLYN--Eastern Parkway. The 14th National Print Exhibition shows 165 examples, selected from 2,000 entries, of what U.S. printmakers have pursued during the past year. Through Aug. 16.

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