Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, Museum of Modern Art, 2021
Museum of Modern Art
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start
This exhibition explores Calder's groundbreaking work, highlighting the artist's close relationship with New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Alexander Calder reimagined sculpture as an experiment in space and motion, upending centuries-old notions that sculpture should be static, grounded, and dense by making artworks that often move freely and interact with their surroundings. “One of Calder’s objects is like the sea,” wrote the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “always beginning over again, always new.” Bringing together early wire and wood figures, works on paper, jewelry, mobiles in motion, and monumental abstract sculptures, the exhibition takes a deep dive into the full breadth of Calder’s career and inventiveness.
Alexander Calder, Crag, 1974
Fundación PROA
Alexander Calder: Teatro de Encuentros / Theater of Encounters
Organized by Fundación Proa, in collaboration with Calder Foundation, New York Embassy of United States of America in Argentina
Theater of Encounters, an exhibition of approximately sixty artworks by Alexander Calder (USA, 1898 - 1976), spans six creative decades of the artist's life and presents the diversity of his work, revealing his multifaceted approach as an artist. Constituting an extensive panorama, the show is a testament to Calder's enduring contemporaneity and the importance of his artistic contributions.
Calder: Hypermobility, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art
Calder: Hypermobility
Calder: Hypermobility focuses on the extraordinary breadth of movement and sound in the work of Alexander Calder.
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 intended—in motion. Regular activations will occur in the galleries, revealing the inherent kinetic nature of Calder’s work, as well as its relationship to performance.
Calder Shadows, Venus Over Manhattan, 2013
Venus Over Manhattan
Calder Shadows
Sculptor, painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer, the renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was above all a master engineer of shifting lines and dancing shadows.
After visiting Piet Mondrian’s studio in 1930, Calder began the experiments with abstract construction that would come to define his oeuvre. He drew inspiration from the intuitive approach of the Surrealists, making hand-cranked and motorized kinetic sculptures that challenged the definition of sculpture as a form fixed in space and created a place for motion in the expressive vocabulary of art.
Alexander Calder
Rhombus, 1972
standing mobile – painted steel
129 x 80 x 115 3/4 in
327.6 x 203.2 x 294.0 cm
Alexander Calder
Crag, 1974
standing mobile – sheet metal, wire, and paint
78 1/2 x 96 x 38 in
199.4 x 243.8 x 96.5 cm
© 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder
Crag with Petals and Yellow Cascade, 1974
standing mobile – sheet metal, wire, paint
77 1/2 x 77 3/4 x 64 in
196.8 x 197.5 x 162.6 cm
© 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder
Crag with White Flower and White Discs, 1974
standing mobile – sheet metal, wire, paint
76 x 86 x 48 in
193 x 218.4 x 121.9 cm
© 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder
Totem, c. 1967
sheet metal and paint
79 x 39 x 34 in
200.7 x 99.1 x 86.4 cm
© 2019 Calder Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder
Totem, c. 1967
sheet metal and paint
79 x 39 x 34 in
200.7 x 99.1 x 86.4 cm
© 2019 Calder Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder
Untitled, c. 1929
wire
10 1/2 x 7 3/4 x 10 in
26.7 x 19.7 x 25.4 cm
Alexander Calder
Ex-Octopus, 1936
stabile – sheet metal and paint
17 1/8 x 17 x 10 1/2 in
43.45 x 43.2 x 26.7 cm
Alexander Calder
The New Ritou, 1938
hanging mobile – sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint
56 x 50 x 24 3/4 in
142.2 x 127 x 62.9 cm
Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1939
hanging mobile – sheet metal, wire, paint
56 x 46 x 24 in
142.2 x 116.8 x 61 cm
Alexander Calder
Constellation, 1943
painted steel wire, painted wood, and wood
25 x 21 x 6 3/4 in
63.5 x 53.3 x 17.15 cm
Alexander Calder
Little Black Flower, 1944
hanging mobile – sheet metal, wire, paint
23 x 35 x 35 in
58.4 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm
Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1953
ink on paper
29 1/2 x 42 1/2 in
74.9 x 108 cm
Alexander Calder
Bronze Quadrilateral, 1960
standing mobile – painted sheet metal, brass, wire
17 x 22 x 11 1/2 in
43.2 x 55.9 x 29.2 cm
Alexander Calder
Monsieur Loyal (Ringmaster) (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1967
sheet metal, bolts, paint
74 x 50 x 40 in
1878 x 127 x 101.6 cm
Alexander Calder
Morning Cobweb (Intermediate maquette), 1967
sheet metal, bolts, paint
64 x 40 1/4 x 40 in
162.6 x 102.2 x 101.6 cm
Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1972
gouache and ink on paper
43 1/4 x 10 in
109.9 x 25.4 cm
Alexander Calder
Red Curlicue (Maquette), 1973
sheet metal
18 x 16 x 15 in
45.7 x 40.6 x 38.1 cm
Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1974
hanging mobile – sheet metal, wire
36 x 61 in
91.4 x 154.9 cm
When Alexander Calder (1898-1976) moved back from France to his native US in 1933, his vision coloured by the post-Cubist and De Stijl iconography he witnessed in Paris, it was just in time to cement a relationship with a newly formed gallery in Manhattan.
A new platform launched by the Calder Foundations features thousands of artworks, photographs, archival documents and publications
Venus Over Manhattan has created an exhibition of works, that on the surface, seem quite the juxtaposition. Visitors find works by Alexander Calder situated right next to totems and figures from Vanuatu, a Pacific nation of around 80 islands, in ‘Calder Crags and Vanuatu Totems from the Collection of Wayne Heathcote.’
In a contemporary art gallery, it’s not often that Calder takes a backseat to ethnographic artwork but Venus Over Manhattan never fails to turn things on their head. Their latest exhibition, Calder Crags and Vanuatu Totems from the Collection of Wayne Heathcote, on view until June 8, 2019, presents a towering group of historical Vanuatu sculptures from the Ambrym, Banks, and Malekula islands alongside a suite of large-scale standing mobiles and crags by Alexander Calder.
From Björk at the Shed to a power-packed panel on Lucian Freud at Acquavella, there is plenty to keep you busy.
From the Collection of Wayne Heathcote
In its inaugural public showing, Alexander Calder’s large, late sculpture “Rhombus” (1972), currently on view at the Venus Over Manhattan gallery on Madison Avenue, anchors an exercise in curatorial theater.
While it's fair to wonder whether Noland, a former it girl of the late '80s art world, even belongs in the same room as Calder, the premise behind the pairing of their sculptures - that inert obejcts can embody the physical dynamics of violence - is interesting enough.
If contemporary art is a love story, then Cady Noland is the one who got away.
Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder + Cady Noland
curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Venus Over Manhattan and Salon 94 in New York City put the artist’s works on dramatic display
Walking into Calder Shadows, on view at Venus Over Manhattan, I felt the same childish camaraderie with the artist, only this time it held fear of the bogeyman.
Calder Shadows, which opened last week at Adam Lindemann’s Upper East Side gallery Venus Over Manhattan, is two shows in one.
If, like us, you thought you had seen all there is of Alexander Calder, think again. The iconic American artist is the subject of a new exhibition at New York’s Venus Over Manhattan gallery that is uniquely staged in the dark.
