Sentences with phrase «calder mobile sculpture»

The piece, «Disequilibrium is Not Your Friend,» examines the consequences of disturbing a system in a state of complex equilibrium, whether it is an intricate Alexander Calder mobile sculpture or the climate.

Not exact matches

Poulain convinced BMW to let him commission the late American pop artist Alexander Calder — best known for his whimsical «mobile» kinetic sculptures — to paint a race - prepped BMW 3.0 CSL with 480 horsepower in the artist's signature palette of primary colors.

Activation: Alexander Calder's Cône d'ébène at Whitney Museum As part of a series of Alexander Calder mobile activations related to the Whitney Museum's current «Calder: Hypermobility» exhibition, the Calder Foundation's president, Alexander S. C. Rower, will spring his grandfather's 1933 sculpture Cône d'ébène into action this week.

The American artist Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) is best known for his mobiles — hanging sculptures fashioned from impeccably poised lengths of wire and thin metal plates, usually colored black and red.

The inaugural exhibition in 1992 took place at Hauser & Wirth's first gallery, located in the first - floor apartment of an Art Deco villa in the heart of Zurich; it united mobiles and gouaches by Alexander Calder with sculptures and paintings by Joan Miró.

Nathan Carter's sculptures and drawings are certainly indebted to Alexander Calder but bring a modern twist to create colorful mobiles that reference abstract painting and and scatter sculptures all at once.

Naum Gabo was also the first artist to lay foundations for a kinetic sculpture, but Alexander Calder took this idea to another level with his «mobiles».

She is most known for her hanging mobile sculptures, which are reminiscent of Alexander Calder.

Across the show, the first at Almine Rech's New York space, Calder mobiles and Picasso portraits, among other rare and never - before - seen paintings and sculptures, reveal visual and emotional resonances between the two famous artists, while reminding us why their work was so revolutionary in the process.

After joining the French artists group Abstraction - Création, Calder began to perfect his trademark mobile sculptures, influenced by the abstract, non-traditional styles of fellow artists like Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miró.

The artist recalls being mesmerized by the mobiles of Alexander Calder and the sculpture of Michael Steiner, whose name is less - known now than it was in the»60s and»70s when such powerhouse critics as Clement Greenberg and Karen Wilkin hailed him as an important figure.

He travelled to Paris in the 1920s where he developed his wire sculptures and by 1931 had invented the mobile, a term first coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe Calder's motorised objects.

For many people, the name Alexander Calder brings to mind large mobiles and monumental red steel sculptures...

Sculptural constructions by Richard Stankiewicz, Betye Saar, and Abe Ajay, a mobile by Alexander Calder, a large glass piece by Dale Chihuly, and several large - scale metal pieces by Seymour Lipton — some of which are currently on view in the Hamer Sculpture Garden — round out the museum's collection of post-war sSculpture Garden — round out the museum's collection of post-war sculpturesculpture.

George Rickey had his kinetic sculpture and Alexander Calder his Calder mobiles, but neither was so eager for others to play along.

These delicate works have drawn comparisons with the lightness of Alexander Calder's mobiles and the surreal sculptures of Alberto Giacometti.

Renowned for his invention of the mobile, a kinetic construction of suspended abstract elements that describe individual movements in changing harmony, Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheets of steel, many of which stand in public plazas in cities throughout the world.

Calder explored central themes and motifs that he soon transferred to the medium of sculpture, leading to his abstract wire objects, his invention of the mobile in 1931, and his motorized wall panels.

Alexander Calder: Sculpture - Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, July 4 — August 12, 1962.

When Alexander Calder invented the mobile in the early 1930s, he brought a new kinetic form of sculpture to the art world.

In this video, Alexander S. C. Rower (Chairman and President, Calder Foundation) and Oliver Wick (Curator at Large, Fondation Beyeler) talk about the title and the concept of the exhibition, the differences between the first and the second Calder Gallery at Fondation Beyeler, the restoration of the large outdoor sculpture that will be on view again soon in the park of Fondation Beyeler, and specific works in the show, such as the models for the avant - garde redesign of the Bronx Zoo, and the mobiles The Forest is the Best Place and El Corcovado.

Traveled to: Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, February 21 — March 26, 1965; Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin, February 25 — March 28, 1965; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, April 28 — March 28, 1965; as Mobiles and Stabiles by Calder, the Man Who Made Sculpture Move, Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1 — 30, 1965.

Alexander Calder also employed aluminum, often in combination with other metals such as steel, to create his celebrated mobile sculptures.

In the end of its evolution, Calder's mobile could be defined as a kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents.

This constellation of key sculptures brings together major examples of Calder's work dating from the 1930s and includes early motor - driven abstractions and sound - generating gongs as well as the standing and hanging mobiles for which he is best known.

Much of the ground floor is near - complete: a huge Richard Serra sculpture, Sequence — two spirals of weathered steel transported to the museum on 11 flat - bed trucks — has long been in place at one glass - walled gallery entrance; a dozen people had just lifted a 26ft - wide Calder mobile to help in its suspension over the main atrium.

To have Hepworth, who is so focused on the fixing of an image within the material, and to have Calder concerned with making sculpture mobile and giving it a kinetic shape, shows different ways in which art was being completely rethought in the middle of the 20th century.

Xin Li, at times wielding three phones, also conveyed the winning bids on four other works in the sale's top 10: a $ 66.2 - million Rothko abstraction, a $ 33.8 - million Koons sculpture, a $ 29.3 - million Richter abstraction, and the record - setting Calder mobile, which dangled above bidders» heads in the Rockefeller Center salesroom.

The show highlights Calder's kinetic sculptures, which Marcel Duchamp first called «mobiles,» assembled from museum collections around the globe.

«Calder Acclaimed as Father of the Mobile, Whirling Sculpture.»

Driscoll, Edgar J. «Calder's Show of Mobiles Has Animated Sculpture.»

Interested show Calder miniatures would also gladly exhibit mobile sculptures available all sizes and colours.

Calder Jewellery explores the lifelong output of wearable art pieces made for family and friends by one of the most innovative and influential figures in 20th - century art, best known for his iconic sculptures and mobiles.

Alexander Calder: Sculpture — Mobiles.

15 April: The Clay Club Gallery, New York, presents «Benefit: Exhibition of Sale of Sculpture to Help Raise Funds for the Sculpture Center» and includes a standing mobile by Calder.

Alexander Calder largely stood apart from other modernist sculptors with his brightly colored mobiles and stabiles, which have since been widely influential, as in the large, brightly colored sculpture of Albert Paley.

Calder wins first prize in the sculpture category for Pittsburgh, a monumental mobile, which is purchased by and installed at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport.

12 May — 11 June: «Calder: Mobiles / Abstract Sculptures» is held at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York.

Mobiles and Stabiles by Calder, the Man Who Made Sculpture Move.

One extreme contrast we loved, however, is a delicate Calder mobile hanging above a monolithic Henry Moore sculpture.

Aside from the parallels drawn between the sculptures and politics, this is an exciting exhibition for another reason: Calder's standing mobile rhombus sculpture is on public display for the first time ever.

Calder's invention of the mobile liberated sculpture from the pedestal and challenged the idea that the element of mass was one of its necessary constituents, and his relentless innovation and strong creative vision extended beyond the lines of an established genre in art.

An Alexander Calder mobile hangs in front of the living wall sculpture terrace at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April, 28, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif..

Featured works include an almost 12» tall sculpture of a leaning fork with a meatball and spaghetti by Oldenburg, a metal Calder mobile c. 1948, a new neon light work from Sonnier, and an Incomplete Open Cube by LeWitt from 1974.

All those problems have been swept away, starting with clearing out all the sculpture and replacing it with Alexander Calder's soaring, monumental International Mobile (1949), the room's indisputable masterpiece.

Calder conceived his early moving sculptures, usually made of shapes cut from metal sheets, during the 1930s in Paris, and it was Marcel Duchamp who coined the term «mobile» to define these works.

While not typically compared to Dalí or Picasso, Curry's brightly colored biomorphic sculptures, disorienting wall - paper, and three - dimensional paintings are often described as contemporary kin to the work of Jean Dubuffet and mobile master Alexander Calder.

Calder's mechanized works gave way to his mobiles and stabiles, sculptures whose disparate metal elements — made from bent wire and flat sheet metal cut - outs — were constructed with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy of the surrounding atmosphere.

The exhibition seamlessly weaved Calder's light wire mobiles with Lygia Clark's bichos, Hélio Oiticica's dancing geometries, and Abraham Palatnik's moving sculptures.

• Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) American pioneer of kinetic art; inventor of sculpture «mobiles» made from wire and pieces of wood.