Calder: Extreme Cantilever
Past exhibition
Overview
Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to present Calder: Extreme Cantilever, an unprecedented exhibition that brings together for the first time Alexander Calder’s three cantilever sculptures, alongside a curated selection of oil paintings, works on paper, and historically significant artifacts. This exhibition illustrates a pivotal shift in Calder’s formal and conceptual approach to spatial abstraction amid the global upheaval of the Second World War. On loan from the Calder Foundation and esteemed private collections, Calder’s three standing mobiles – Extreme Cantilever, More Extreme Cantilever, and Extrême porte à faux III – showcase the artist’s unbridled imagination and intuitive genius that cement him as one of the 20th century’s foremost innovators.
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News
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By Elisa Carollo for Observer November 5, 2024Conceived in a transformational moment of the artist's practice, his dynamic standing sculptures represent a shift in his approach to spatial abstraction.Read more -
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