Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor presents approximately ninety sculptural and pictorial compositions made by renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976), drawn from private and museum collections in North America, including a substantial number of works lent by the Calder Foundation, New York.
Calder is widely regarded as the artist who made sculpture move, forging a practice in dialogue with the world in motion and the motion in things. His radical and pioneering methods of making art—understood both technically and conceptually—changed the course of modern art.
The exhibition introduces audiences to the full breadth of Calder’s influential career as an inventor of new artistic forms and provides a rich overview of Calder’s extensive oeuvre, including his explorative two-dimensional studies of line and space, his three-dimensional wire portraits and circus figures, as well as his most acclaimed artistic inventions, the mobile and the stabile.
Alexander Calder | Radical Inventor will be on display from 5 April 2019 — 4 August 2019 at NGV International in Melbourne.
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