Sentences with phrase «steel mobile sculpture»

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For many people, the name Alexander Calder brings to mind large mobiles and monumental red steel sculptures...

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.

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

Much of the ground floor is near - complete: a huge Richard Serra sculpture, Sequence — two spirals of weathered steel transported to the museum on 11 flat - bed trucks — has long been in place at one glass - walled gallery entrance; a dozen people had just lifted a 26ft - wide Calder mobile to help in its suspension over the main atrium.

A collaboration with fashion designer Osman Yousefzada on a swivel - mobile made from mirror - polished stainless steel, which hung above the catwalk entrance for his A / W 2009 show, is currently on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, and he's involved in an ongoing project to transform the Pavilion café in London's Victoria Park.

The general public is welcome to walk through the old entryway on Third Street or the new one on Howard and mingle among a massive steel sculpture by Richard Serra, a suspended mobile by Alexander Calder and a mural by LeWitt.

Red Lily Pads (1956), a painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder spanning nearly 17 feet that will be suspended over the rotunda's fountain, underwent extensive historical research and analysis, resulting in a beautifully integrated surface and restoration of the mobile's proper balance.

Enter through the new Howard Street entrance; spiral through Richard Serra's torqued, 213 - ton Corten steel sculpture Sequence, across the swath of free public space given over to hanging out under the vast Alexander Calder mobile, and up the maplewood stairway to the second - floor atrium.