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拍品專文
Alexander Calder’s Untitled (Maquette for the set of Eppur si Muove) joyfully places performance and sculpture in conversation. Nine arms extend outward from a wire axis, coalescing into colorful, organic forms at each end. The oscillating arms, sensitive to the currents in the air, shift to reveal a host of compositional possibilities. The extremities of each branch sport a vibrant sheet of metal, appearing red, black, or a combination of the two, intermingling with the surrounding environment and creating different modes of viewing. The term “mobiles”, conceived by Marcel Duchamp, describes these moving works that embody Calder’s sculptural dynamism.
For Calder, sculpture is a means of capturing movement, not stillness. The present work celebrates Calder’s enduring interest in movement and performance. As part of a collaboration with the director and choreographer Joseph Lazzini, Calder crafted this mobile for the set of “Eppur si Muove” (“So it Moves”), performed at the Marseille Opera. The maquette was gifted to Lazzini and held in his personal collection until 2002. Calder partnered with other artists such as composer Erik Satie and ballet dancer Martha Graham, entwinning his oeuvre with a broader context of performance arts.
The interplay of color and line in Calder's mobile reveals the subtleties of his artistry. The wire axes, seemingly unassuming, traverse space like lines on a piece of paper, their minimal contours easily translatable into a two-dimensional drawing. However, the lightweight materials defy the instinct to flatten, dancing through the air and affirming the sculpture's tangible existence within three-dimensional space. The bold and striking colors employed reflect the influence of Calder's close friend, Joan Miró, and articulate a concise, evocative vocabulary of color. The maquette inhabits the space between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, between stillness and motion, between fine art and performance. Calder distills these opposing forces into the delicately balanced mobile, imbued with an energetic quality of its own.
For Calder, sculpture is a means of capturing movement, not stillness. The present work celebrates Calder’s enduring interest in movement and performance. As part of a collaboration with the director and choreographer Joseph Lazzini, Calder crafted this mobile for the set of “Eppur si Muove” (“So it Moves”), performed at the Marseille Opera. The maquette was gifted to Lazzini and held in his personal collection until 2002. Calder partnered with other artists such as composer Erik Satie and ballet dancer Martha Graham, entwinning his oeuvre with a broader context of performance arts.
The interplay of color and line in Calder's mobile reveals the subtleties of his artistry. The wire axes, seemingly unassuming, traverse space like lines on a piece of paper, their minimal contours easily translatable into a two-dimensional drawing. However, the lightweight materials defy the instinct to flatten, dancing through the air and affirming the sculpture's tangible existence within three-dimensional space. The bold and striking colors employed reflect the influence of Calder's close friend, Joan Miró, and articulate a concise, evocative vocabulary of color. The maquette inhabits the space between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, between stillness and motion, between fine art and performance. Calder distills these opposing forces into the delicately balanced mobile, imbued with an energetic quality of its own.