Famous abstract sculptors associated with Constructivism include Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Alexander Calder, whose name is synonymous
with mobile sculpture.
Not exact matches
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.
Sculptured Entertainment's first collaboration is
with Wicked Witch Software, who are most well known for their
mobile game, Catapult King, which has been downloaded over 30 million times and reached # 1 in over 80 countries.
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.
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.
Naum Gabo was also the first artist to lay foundations for a kinetic
sculpture, but Alexander Calder took this idea to another level
with his «
mobiles».
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.
These observations led me to develop a
mobile app, called FDM: In the Garden, that will combine information about the
sculptures and sculptors in the garden
with creative and restorative activities, by presenting users
with a daily challenge meant to educate, motivate, and rejuvenate.
These delicate works have drawn comparisons
with the lightness of Alexander Calder's
mobiles and the surreal
sculptures of Alberto Giacometti.
George Peters has a thirty year history of working
with aerial forms from gallery works to installation
sculpture, kites,
mobiles and banner works.
Alexander Calder also employed aluminum, often in combination
with other metals such as steel, to create his celebrated
mobile sculptures.
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.
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.
To have Hepworth, who is so focused on the fixing of an image within the material, and to have Calder concerned
with making
sculpture mobile and giving it a kinetic shape, shows different ways in which art was being completely rethought in the middle of the 20th century.
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.
A
mobile is a type of kinetic (moving)
sculpture made
with rods and weighted objects that hang from the rods and balance each other.
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)
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.
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.
All those problems have been swept away, starting
with clearing out all the
sculpture and replacing it
with Alexander Calder's soaring, monumental International
Mobile (1949), the room's indisputable masterpiece.
Calder's mechanized works gave way to his
mobiles and stabiles,
sculptures whose disparate metal elements — made from bent wire and flat sheet metal cut - outs — were constructed
with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy of the surrounding atmosphere.
The exhibition seamlessly weaved Calder's light wire
mobiles with Lygia Clark's bichos, Hélio Oiticica's dancing geometries, and Abraham Palatnik's moving
sculptures.
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.
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».
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.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have
with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making
with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship
with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a
mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden
sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion
with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host
with a small drawing.
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.
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.
During this period Chadwick was increasingly concerned
with the ground supports of the stabiles which were more sculptural, and eventually these became the
sculptures without any
mobile elements.
, a large - scale kinetic
sculpture installation composed of double - sided glass panel mirrors,
with an excerpt of text cut out of each
mobile panels.
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.
On Tuesday (Sept. 17), Santa Monica Museum of Art presents The
Mobile Homestead Project: A Conversation
with Mary Clare Stevens, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren, a discussion of the public
sculpture Mobile Homestead, created...
That same year, Calder started to construct «
mobiles» - abstract
sculpture with moving parts.
There were strange
sculptures being erected everywhere — blow - up ones filled
with waving seaweed stuff, amusement - park - style ones
with old toilets for seats, seagull
mobiles flapping in the sky... A concert was due to start at 10 pm, but hungry bellies were aching, so we headed to a bar across from the train station and ordered food alongside our fellow travelers and their suitcases — a plate of Manchego cheese, olives, meatballs and fried calamari.