> ALEXANDER CALDER: PERFORMING SCULPTURE

Tate Modern, London
26th March 2016

Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture - Art that takes flight. Colours, abstract forms and a unique visual language. It's poetic, vibrant and certain to move! 

American sculptor Alexander Calder was a radical figure who pioneered kinetic sculpture, bringing movement to static objects. He travelled to Paris in the 1920s, having originally trained as an engineer, and by 1931 he had invented the mobile, a term coined by Duchamp to describe Calder’s sculptures which moved of their own accord.

Red Horse and Green Sulky 1926
 

Calder’s dynamic works brought to life the avant-garde’s fascination with movement, and brought sculpture into the fourth dimension. Continuing Tate Modern’s acclaimed reassessments of key figures in modernism, Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture reveals how motion, performance and theatricality underpinned his art.  This fantastic show contained many major works from museums around the world, as well as showcasing his collaborative projects in the fields of film, theatre, music and dance.

Brilliant as always.

10 out of 10!