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.
Thea Djordjadze (b. 1971, Georgia) will populate unexpected spaces within Frieze London with a new series
of mobile sculptures, incorporating the Monstera Deliciosa plants that inspired Henri Matisse's «cut - outs».
Not exact matches
Students then further develop this into a 3D
sculpture and make a construction
mobile cutting a copy
of the painting into shapes.
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.
A collection
of lesson plans and art activity ideas, finger puppets, wax etchings,
sculptures, jewelry, light catchers, clay, wire
mobiles, poems.
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.
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.
This show features the L.A. based artist latest works — roughly hewn and comprised
of paintings, cardboard collages, fabric collages, tapestries, ceramics, a
mobile, and
sculptures in metal, urethane and fabric.
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.
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.
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.
Nancy Jackson's latest exhibition, her sixth with Rosamund Felsen Gallery, was a lighthearted tour de force consisting
of seven paper
mobiles, at once intricate and majestic, nine works on paper and 12
sculptures.
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.
Surrounding the
mobile, Kwade (b. 1979, Katowice, Poland) has placed several large bronze casts reminiscent
of Modernist
sculpture.
She is most known for her hanging
mobile sculptures, which are reminiscent
of Alexander Calder.
He is a father
of «
mobiles», kinetic
sculptures of flat metal pieces connected by a wire that moved delicately in the air.
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.
Drawing upon social -
sculpture practice where other strategies have failed, Saro - Wiwa advances different ways
of knowing about the Niger Delta and its global implications while prompting a reconsideration
of the parameters
of contemporary «Afropolitan» identities — a term coined in 2005 by writer Taiye Selasi to describe the transnational experience
of a new generation
of globally
mobile Africans.
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 s
Sculpture Garden — round out the museum's collection
of post-war
sculpturesculpture.
Featuring bronze
sculptures of giant, pre-historic vertebrae and a film inspired by NASA data
of extrasolar meteors, the commission centres around a large
mobile of 24 electronic star maps.
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.
Unframed paintings, reliefs, collages,
sculptures and
mobiles were placed at different heights so that the space
of the whole studio was animated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
George Peters has a thirty year history
of working with aerial forms from gallery works to installation
sculpture, kites,
mobiles and banner works.
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.
Ackland Art Museum, The University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Baltimore Museum
of Art, Baltimore, MD Bowdoin College Museum
of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK Brooklyn Museum
of Art, Brooklyn, NY Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Cleveland Museum
of Art, Cleveland, OH Columbia University, New York, NY Columbus Museum
of Art, Columbus, OH Corcoran Museum
of Art, Washington, DC Crystal Bridges Museum
of Art, Bentonville, AR University
of Delaware, Newark, DE Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, TX Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA The Detroit Institute
of Arts, Detroit, MI Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland Elvehjem Museum
of Art, Madison, WI Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA Flint Institute
of Art, Flint, MI Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Greenville County Museum
of Art, Greenville, SC Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY Hammer Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Hunter Museum
of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Huntington Museum
of Art, Huntington, WV Iowa State University, Ames, IA The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The John & Mable Ringling Museum
of Art, Sarasota, FL Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg, PA Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, NY The Mint Museum
of Art, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum
of Art,
Mobile, AL Mulhenberg College, Allentown, PA Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute Museum
of Art, Utica, NY Museum
of Art, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum
of Modern Art, New York, NY The Nelson - Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, MO National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC Neuberger Museum
of Art, Purchase College, State University
of New York, Purchase, NY New Britain Museum
of Art, New Britain, CT New Orleans Museum
of Art, New Orleans, LA New School for Social Research, New York, NY Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Oklahoma City Museum
of Art, Oklahoma City, OK Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR San Diego Museum
of Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San José Museum
of Art, San José, CA Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA São Paulo Museum, São Paulo, Brazil Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Smith College Museum
of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Spencer Museum
of Art, University
of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Tucson Museum
of Art, Tucson, AZ Ulrich Museum
of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS University
of Tucson, Tucson, AZ University Gallery, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA The University
of Michigan Museum
of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Virginia Museum
of Fine Art, Richmond, VA Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
of Art, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, NY Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Williams College Museum
of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
The installation features a series
of interconnected wall drawings and
mobile - like
sculptures made up
of his signature scrap paintings — bits
of tape and overspray that have been stripped from his studio walls and carefully arranged on paper and clear mylar.
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.
This exhibition celebrates his work
of the last four decades when it expanded to include
mobile sculptures, screenprints, furniture and public design projects.
the often provocative oeuvre consists
of over a thousand objects ranging from
sculptures to furniture,
mobile homes, and autonomous communes.
In addition, Brancusi's The Child in the World, a so - called «
mobile group», has been reconstructed out
of the original wooden
sculptures.
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.
«Elements
of Peace» consists
of 47 recent paintings, works on paper,
sculpture,
mobiles and maquettes
of large multi-dimensional constructions, and features works that range from vivid explosions
of color by which the artist is recognized, to newer subtle white meditative paintings.
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
A Bird Without A Song is a video -
sculpture in the form
of an oversized
mobile phone displaying a looping Tinder - profile animation.
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.
Also opening on Saturday at the Knockdown Center is A Way From Home, a
mobile art project by J. McDonald, which will present a solo
sculpture show
of his work in «New Environments for the Modern Creature».
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.