This exhibition celebrates his work of the last four decades when it expanded to
include mobile sculptures, screenprints, furniture and public design projects.
Not exact matches
This catalogue features works from throughout his career,
including rare early
mobiles and unique
sculptures, some which have never previously been exhibited.
These
included Abstract Paintings,
Sculptures,
Mobiles, at the A.I.A Gallery, London in 1951 and during the following year three weekend exhibitions held at 22 Fitzroy Street; the London studio of artist Adrian Heath.
These
included Abstract Paintings,
Sculptures,
Mobiles, at the A.I.A Gallery, London in 1951 and during the following year three - weekend exhibitions held at 22 Fitzroy Street; the London studio of artist Adrian Heath.
For Space Program: Europa, Sachs presents an immersive installation of large scale
sculptures including the
Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, and the Landing Exploration Module (LEM), as well as a variety of materials and equipment for conducting scientific experiments.
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.
The exhibit also
includes a wall installation with multiple individual fragments, a very large 3 - panel abstract painting on canvas with fabric, paint, and collaged newspaper clippings about UFO sightings, a ceiling — hung
mobile and a stabile (
sculpture) on a pedestal made with wood, string and found metal.
The
Mobile Museum of Art's permanent collection consists of an assemblage of American, European, African and Asian art
including paintings,
sculptures, prints, drawings and decorative art.
The exhibition brings together around 170 pieces,
including watercolours, gouaches, luminous reliefs, collages, paintings,
mobiles,
sculptures and interdisciplinary projects, in addition to a documentary section on the period stretching from 1949 to the early 1980s.
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.
Some of these major monumental
sculpture commissions
include:.125, a
mobile for the New York Port Authority that was hung in Idlewild (now John F. Kennedy) Airport (1957); Spirale, for UNESCO, in Paris (1958); Teodelapio, for the city of Spoleto, Italy (1962); Trois disques (Man), for the Expo in Montreal (1967); El Sol Rojo, installed outside the Aztec Stadium for the Olympic Games in Mexico City; La Grande vitesse, the first public art work to be funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1969); and Flamingo, a stabile for the General Services Administration in Chicago (1973).
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.
Nicolas Carone's work is in the collections of museums
including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the
Mobile Museum of Art.
As a result, many new types and forms of
sculpture were pioneered by American artists,
including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (
mobiles), assemblage, minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop
sculptures, environmental earthworks, and multi-media
sculpture.
This group, which
included Heath, Pasmore, Robert Adams, Kenneth and Mary Martin and Anthony Hill, first showed together in the London Group exhibition in February 1951 and again at the Artists International Association's Abstract Paintings,
Sculptures,
Mobiles later that year.
Beth Campbell's «Potential Future Drawings» series, and her related
mobile sculptures (one of which will be
included in this exhibition), exhibit sequenced series of choices and possibilities, expanding exponentially.
Famous abstract sculptors associated with Constructivism
include Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Alexander Calder, whose name is synonymous with
mobile sculpture.
The exhibition filled YBCA with everything his astronauts need to successfully complete their voyage —
including the
Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, the Apollo - era Landing Excursion Module (LEM), and special equipment for conducting scientific experiments — immersing the audience in a universe of
sculpture occupying the entire downstairs galleries in addition to YBCA's public spaces.
She has had one - person exhibitions at galleries around the country, and her work has been shown at museums nationally,
including the DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park, Gibbes Museum, Orlando Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Arkansas Arts Center, Bass Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum and the
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