Experiencing Calder’s mobiles firsthand is the only way to fully comprehend their multisensory brilliance, but this footage of Black Mobile with Hole in motion is an apt substitute. Unlike a photograph, the clip reveals how the sculpture carves new forms by way of its movements. As Sartre wrote in 1946, “These hesitations and resumptions, gropings and fumblings, sudden decisions, and, most especially, marvellous swan-like nobility make Calder’s mobiles strange creatures, mid-way between matter a

Voir les mobiles d'Alexander Calder en mouvement c'est possible : 1. des mises en mouvement de mobiles vous sont offertes chaque jour de l’exposition à 14 h, jusqu’au 24 février! 2. les courants d'air ambiants peuvent parfois les faire bouger très subtilement, il suffit d'observer attentivement. Faites-vite l'exposition se termine dans deux semaines! http://bit.ly/CalderMBAM - See Alexander Calder’s mobiles in motion: 1. the works are set in motion every day of the exhibition at 2 p.m., until Fe

In the beginning of Hans Richter’s 1963 film Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon, the artist finds a rusty spoon on his Roxbury property. “[He] bends the spoon and slowly reveals, with effortless precision, the utensil’s transformation into an intimate, animated standing mobile,” writes Kaitlyn A. Kramer. “The petite sculpture is added to a prolific collection of other tabletop works whose mobile tops Calder activates with his breath.” Watch the full film: https://tinyurl.com/zdssd4wm

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