"Calder 1941" Exhibition
The Pace Gallery (32 E 57th St)
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The Pace Gallery, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, is honored to present "Calder 1941," an exhibition focusing on a seminal year in Alexander Calder’s career and the apotheosis of a decade of experimentation following his invention of the mobile in 1931.
"Calder 1941" presents fifteen mobiles and standing mobiles made primarily from sheet metal, wire, and paint, many of which have not been on public view for decades. The year of 1941 has been identified by scholars and contemporaries alike as a significant moment in Calder’s oeuvre when the artist began working with a newfound confidence and deftness as he synthesized the vocabulary of kinetic objects, systems of weights and balances, a new monumentality of scale, and an array of nontraditional materials with which he had experimented over the preceding decade. Calder’s output from 1941 also represents the zenith of his works in aluminum, which he reduced his use of following America’s entry into World War II.
[Image: Alexander Calder "Un effet du japonais" (1941) sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint 80 x 80 x 48 in. © 2011 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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from October 21, 2011 to December 23, 2011