'Calder: Hypermobility' at the Whitney
“Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”
—Alexander Calder
The Whitney Museum of American Art recently opened Calder: Hypermobility, an exhibition that explores the vast range of motion achieved by Alexander Calder (1898–1976) from the 1930s when he first turned to radical abstraction, on through the remaining decades of his career. The artist is credited with inventing the mobile, a sophisticated, sculpture apparatus that combines balancing components that move and rotate in variable ways, sometimes generating sound. Most remarkably, due to an unprecedented collaboration with the Calder Foundation, the exhibition includes a series of performances and events that demonstrate the full scope of the works in action. Activated by motors and air currents, further animated by touch, the exhibition represents a very rare opportunity to see the mobiles in action, performing as Calder intended.
Calder: Hypermobility is on view at the Whitney through October 23, 2017
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