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.
With five
current exhibitions on view (two permanents and three temporary), is a museological space
of reference in Lisbon, where the visitor can enjoy the best
of modern and contemporary art, hosting the Berardo Collection with its more than 70 artistic tendencies and more than 900 works that demonstrates its strong museological and didactic nature, with works by artists like Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Alexander
Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Helena Almeida, Louise Bourgeois, Dan Flavin, Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Rebecca Horn, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Nam June Paik, Frank Stella, Bill Viola, among many others.
As an encyclopedic museum, there are always a variety
of exhibitions, but the
current offerings are especially rich: The James Turrell retrospective on view through April 6 beats out last year's Guggenheim show for breadth
of offerings and the survey «
Calder and Abstraction» boasts
exhibition design by Frank Gehry that includes curved walls that cast those mobiles and stabiles in a whole new light.
As an accompaniment to the
current exhibition Calder: Hypermobility, Yeh will present a sequel video (the first
of which he made in 2015 documenting the life
of «Circus»).