Calder also made large outdoor sculptures from
bolted sheet steel for public buildings and spaces.
Calder also made large outdoor sculptures from
bolted sheet steel for public buildings and spaces — such as Cactus provisoire, 1967, in Trinity College Dublin — and was a noted book illustrator and stage set designer.
Not exact matches
With a
sheet thickness of 0.9 mm it is highly stable and is equipped with a fire - retarding mineral wool infill,
steel reinforcement and 2
steel security
bolts.
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.
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.
Caro utilized oxyacetylene welding equipment and scrap metal from London dockyards and began to experiment with cutting, welding, and
bolting together pre-fabricated
steel girders, meshes and
sheet metal.