Alexander Calder: Hypermobility Exhibition at The Whitney Museum 2017
Calder: Hypermobility focuses on the extraordinary breadth of movement and sound in the work of Alexander Calder. This exhibition brings together a rich constellation of key sculptures and provides a rare opportunity to experience the works as the artist intendedin motion. Regular activations will occur in the galleries, revealing the inherent kinetic nature of Calders work, as well as its relationship to performance. Influenced in part by the artists fascination and engagement with choreography, Calders sculptures contain an embedded performativity that is reflected in their idiosyncratic motions and the perceptual responses they provoke. In the early 1930s, Calder invented an entirely new mode of art, the mobilea kinetic form of sculpture in which carefully balanced components manifest their own unique systems of movement. These works operate in highly sophisticated ways, ranging from gentle rotations to uncanny gestures, and at times, trigger unpredictable percussive sounds. Calder: Hypermobili br, br,
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