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Alexander Calder

ALEXANDER CALDER

Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere Pace Gallery 14 September–26 October 2019 540 West 25th Street, New York
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In close collaboration with the Calder Foundation, New York, Pace will inaugurate the 3,600-square-foot first-floor gallery with a focused exhibition dedicated to Alexander Calder. The exhibition will examine the breadth of the artist’s practice beginning in the mid-1920s and leading up to his creation in 1931 of the mobile-an unprecedented form of kinetic sculpture that created a true rupture in the trajectory of art. From his gestural ‘Animal Sketchings’ and massless wire portraits of the 1920s to his abstract oil paintings of 1930 and the swift progression to motorised objects and hanging mobiles, this exhibition will capture the remarkable transition from potential to actual energy in Calder’s work and underscore his relentless pursuit of the vitality and life force in art.

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Alexander Calder (b. 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania; d. 1976, New York) is one of the most acclaimed and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. He is renowned for the invention of the mobile, a kinetic construction of suspended abstract elements that describe individual movements, moving and balancing in changing harmony. Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheets of steel, many of which stand in public plazas in cities throughout the world. Pace Gallery has worked closely with the Calder estate since 1984.

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About the Gallery

Pace is a global art gallery of and for the future, modeled on a set of core values established during its founding in 1960 and designed to serve its artists, estates, and collectors in a way that is focused, responsive, and aligned with its enduring mission.

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540 West 25th Street
New York
United States
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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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New York 540 West 25th Street
Pace Gallery contemporary art gallery in 540 West 25th Street New York United States
Pace Gallery
540 West 25th Street, New York, United States
+1 212 421 3292
http://www.pacegallery.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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