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Angela Conner is one of Britain's most prolific sculptors who has created many of Europe's vast mobile sculptures as well as life - like statues and portrait busts.

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A further example cutting this up by pasting on cardboard a copy of the painting and then cutting this up in shapes and building a construction of form as a 3D sculpture A Construction of a 3D sculpture using cardboard to make a mobile or standing sculpture based on Cubism.

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.

Following the celebrated debut of the series during Salone del Mobile in Milan, Studio Swine's innovative blossoming sculpture New Spring will be presented at The Temple House as an official satellite of Design Miami /, presented by Future \ Pace.

He is renowned for his invention of wire sculpture — coined by critics as «drawings in space» — and the mobile, a kinetic sculpture of suspended abstract elements whose actual movement creates ever - changing compositions.

Animated as if by a life force, these works quickly came to be known as «mobiles,» a word that still brings to mind aerial, wind - activated sculptures today.

His invention of the «mobile», a term coined by Marcel Duchamp, in Paris in 1931 was among his most radical contributions, permanently transforming the landscape of art by introducing the concept of performativityas well as actual kinetic qualities into sculpture, engendering a redefinition of art beyond composition and material.

Officially known as metamechanics, Tinguely's sculptures appear light - hearted and fun, yet the dangerously spiked tail of the mobile and the metallic grinding — even self - eroding — structure serve as an ironic and satirical metaphor for commercial machines, overproduction and consumerism.

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.

Won by the terrific Helen Marten, who split the winnings with her fellow contenders, the Hepworth sculpture prize exhibition (ends 19 February) ranges from Phyllida Barlow's rough - and - tumble slanted stage, with its cavernous undercroft, to David Medalla's delicate foam fountains, from Steven Claydon's mobile phone masts disguised as trees and rafts of fabricated tribal artifacts, to Marten's complex syntax games with objects and images.

Supplementing the works on display at the museum (sculptures, installations, music), several works will exist only as instructions accessible by mobile phone or the Internet.

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.

The opening on June 14 will also mark the completion of Lisi Raskin's project, Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station, as well as the reopening of Christian Philipp Müller's Hudson Valley Tastemakers, an earth sculpture on the grounds of Bard College originally installed in 2003.

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.

2015 Mobile M +: Live Art, M +, Hong Kong, China The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire, commissioned by M + for Mobile M +: Live Art, Hong Kong, China The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Office Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France J'adore, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany Future Light, MAK — Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the collection, MoMA, New York, USA As We Never Imagined: 50 Years of Art Making, STPI gallery, Singapore After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - present, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA Temporary Permanent, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany Feminismen, Nordsternturm Videoart Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Suppleness and Rigidity — The Art of the Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Biennale 12, Sharjah, UAE Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 360 °: Die Rückkehr der Sammlung, Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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

It was Marcel Duchamp that christened these sculptures as «mobile» — in French, mobile both means motive and mobile.

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.

He's an incredibly inventive artist and one of the things the exhibition is trying to do is look at, with his invention of the mobile, how that revolutionised sculpture as a practice.

Djordjadze is also presenting Matisse - inspired mobile sculptures within the Frieze London tent as part of Frieze Projects, the fair's programme of site - specific commissions.

The Deluge Group is creating a mobile sculpture trailer, which serves as a place of production and vehicle for the exhibition and sale of a wide range of art objects, trash constructions and objects of social parody, and other creative forms of exchange.

The county also reconfigured the 28 - by -28-foot sculpture by adding weights to hoist up a portion of the mobile that it deemed as hanging too low and then attached a motor because, with the added weight, the mobile would no longer rotate on its own.

Sound Sculpture, a three - piece sound installation (with instruments such as cowbells on drum petals and an xylophone) played manually, by singing into a mobile phone or by downloading drum - machine software (Location: corner of Stephanie and John streets, south of Grange Park)

Audiences are encouraged to engage, explore and participate in this colourful exhibition - visitors can try on his wearable «Parangolés» and enjoy the fun of dressing up as a mobile sculpture.

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

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.

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.

(1898 - 1976) was an American sculptor who conceived a unique form of wire sculpture, known as «drawings in space,» as well as his signature «mobiles,» which incorporated suspended abstract elements to create a kinetic sculpture.

Conducted on the occasion of the exhibition Teatro delle Esposizioni at the Villa Medici, this sculpture is as a mobile stage, polychrome, composed of eight distinct parts, infinitely reconfigurable and offering the possibility of staging in situations still unpublished, artistic practices (music, dance, theater)... or strictly intellectual.

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.

Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) is known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicate balances or suspended elements moving in response to motor power or wind.

Following a visit in October of 1930 to Mondrian's studio, where he was impressed by the environment and actuation of space, Calder made his first wholly abstract compositions and invented the kinetic sculpture now known as the mobile.

For Sterling Ruby's second solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, he presents works from his SCALES series of mobile sculptures — conceived for the first time as a single installation.

Ruth Asawa, American artist known for her abstract wire sculptures, many of which were displayed suspended as mobiles.

Ruth Asawa, in full Ruth Aiko Asawa, (born January 24, 1926, Norwalk, California, U.S. — died August 6, 2013, San Francisco), American artist known for her abstract wire sculptures, many of which were displayed suspended as mobiles.

Pryor, an abstract painter, has been curating the unique shows at the gallery for two years, creating shows such as «Fashioned: One Becomes Another,» in 2011, which saw him collaborate with Project Runway designer Christopher Straub to turn his abstract images into fashion pieces that were like mobile three - dimensional sculptures.

Elsewhere, cocking a snook at the idea of art as commodity, Matthew Darbyshire has redesigned the fair's ticket office in lurid pink (inspired, apparently, by the interior of a certain mobile - phone store) and Gabriel Kuri has replaced the ashtrays with sculptures.

Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.

Shaw and Loren will talk about their roles in Mobile Homestead, and Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Executive Director Mary Clare Stevens joins them in discussing the sculpture's function as public art, community space and private architecture.

Renowned for his large - scale sculptures, innovative mobiles, as well as stabiles, wire sculptures, paintings, toys and jewelry, Calder developed a unique abstract sculptural language.

Calder (1898 - 1976) is best known for his «mobiles» (as named by Marcel Duchamp), «stabiles» and as the pioneer of kinetic sculpture playing an essential role in 20th century modernism.

The modernist interest in motion in sculpture is represented by a «mobile» and a «stabile» by Alexander Calder, as well as a motorized sculpture by José de Rivera.