By introducing movement to the static art form of sculpture, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) extended the medium beyond the visual into the temporal dimension.
Drawing from major international public and private collections, including a large body of work loaned from the Calder Foundation, New York, the exhibition features over 30 of the artist's masterpieces created between 1931 and 1960.
The show is designed open plan without walls, offering the opportunity to see works that span Calder’s early abstractions or sphériques to a magnificent selection of later mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles of various sizes. Also on view are a large body of constellations, a term proposed by Marcel Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist’s sculptures made of wood and wire in 1943.
