Alexander Calder
dal 27/7/2008 al 28/2/2009
Segnalato da
27/7/2008
Alexander Calder
Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago
Alexander Calder in Focus. A small exhibition presented annually at the MCA. These works, drawn primarily from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan and dating from 1927 to 1968, they demonstrate the artist's development throughout his 50-year career.
This exhibition is organized by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.
View Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings in this small exhibition presented annually at the MCA. These works, drawn primarily from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan and dating from 1927 to 1968, demonstrate the artist’s development throughout his 50-year career. Calder combined colorful shapes taken from nature, such as snowflakes, birds, and animals, with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air currents.
His explorations of both geometric and organic shapes have distinguished him as an innovator of art that responds to its physical environment. Though Calder began his career as an artist focused on drawing and painting, he is best known for creating stabiles, mobiles, and large-scale sculptures of natural forms simplified into dynamic, often whimsical creatures.
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