Calder. Sculpting Time explores the profound and transformative impact of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists through a focused lens. Alexander Calder (1898-1976) changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture by introducing the fourth dimension of time into art with his le...

Calder. Sculpting Time explores the profound and transformative impact of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists through a focused lens. Alexander Calder (1898-1976) changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture by introducing the fourth dimension of time into art with his legendary mobiles - a term coined by Marcel Duchamp that refers to both "motion" and "motive" in French - and by exploring volumes and voids in his stabiles, christened by Jean Arp for his stationary objects.

This catalogue includes over 30 masterworks made between 1930 and 1960 - Calder's most innovative, prolific years - from his early abstractions or sphériques to a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It also features a large body of Calder's Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist's beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply due to World War II.

CONTENTS

Calder. Sculpting Time

Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot Comenge

SELECTION FROM CALDER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Mondrian

Calder: ses mobiles

Stabiles

The Spanish Pavilion

Constellations

Pas nobles mobiles

CALDER'S MOBILES. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

CALDER’S WRITINGS AND QUOTATIONS

How Can Art Be Realized?

Objects to Art Being Static, So He Keeps It in Motion

Dichiarazione in Modern Painting and Sculpture

Mobiles

17 mobiles by Alexander Calder

À Propos of Measuring a Mobile

What Abstract Art Means to Me

Statement in 4 Masters Exhibition

How to Do It

WORKS

APPENDIX

Selected Chronology

List of Exhibited Works