Arp, Calder, and Miro'
dal 4/10/2013 al 18/1/2014
Segnalato da
4/10/2013
Arp, Calder, and Miro'
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Modern Masters from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition features fifty-two works across varied media, highlighting the work of three modern masters, who pushed color, line, and form beyond convention.
Featuring a comprehensive array of fifty-two works across varied media by Jean (Hans) Arp (French, born Germany, 1886–1966), Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983), and Alexander Calder (American, 1898–1976), this exhibition will highlight the work of three modern masters, who pushed color, line, and form beyond convention.
Arp, Miró, and Calder converged early in their artistic careers. Calder, who left New York for France in 1926, first encountered Arp and Miró in Paris, an inspirational destination for artists and a vibrant center of music and dance. Paris was also the creative center for Surrealism—an art movement stressing the subconscious significance of imagery—and Surrealist theory in the visual arts, politics, and society. Calder, though not closely associated with Surrealism, was undoubtedly influenced by the movement’s key players during his time in Paris.
It was Arp, in fact, who named Calder’s static constructions “stabiles,” and, in 1931, the Surrealist Marcel Duchamp suggested Calder call his whimsical, kinetic works “mobiles.” But Calder developed the closest friendship with Miró; the two bonded over discussions about Surrealist theory, and through shared interests and influences. These relationships, formed during a period in art history often referred to as “the greatest laboratory of modern art,” resulted in some of the most innovative visual iconographies of the twentieth century.
This exhibition was initiated by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and organized by Albright-Knox Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes.
Presented by Kimmins Contracting Corporation with media support from Tampa Bay Times.
Image: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976). The Cone, 1960. Painted metal, overall: 100 x 110 x 65 inches (254 x 279.4 x 165.1 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1961. © 2013 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Opening: 5 October 2013
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