Alexander Calder (1898-1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his creativity. By the summer of 1934, Calder was producing his first outdoor sculptures. His monumental standing mobile 'The Tree' (1966) exemplifies this new tension between abstraction and figuration. This volume, published for an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, tracks Calder's evolution away from geometric abstraction and toward large-scale biomorphism via the tree motif. It includes maquettes that anticipate 'The Tree' as well as a striking group of rarely seen sculptures from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Alexander Calder: Trees: Naming Abstraction

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Hatje Cantz Publishers January 2014

Date de parution

2014

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anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

3775737103

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9783775737104

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Trade Paperback

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Monumentale Au�enskulpturen des amerikanischen Bildhauers. Alexander Calder (1898 1976) �bersetzte die bildliche Abstraktion der Moderne in den Raum und spielte mit den Titeln seiner Arbeiten h�ufig auf die dargestellten Momente der Bewegung oder Gewichtung an. Als Calder 1933 Paris verlie� und in seine amerikanische Heimat zur�ckkehrte, bezog er ein altes Bauernhaus in Roxbury, Connecticut, wo die Natur zu einer neuen, sein k�nstlerisches Schaffen beeinflussenden Quelle der Inspiration wurde. The Tree von 1966, eine monumentale Kombination aus Mobile und Stabile, f�hrt die innere Verwandtschaft von Abstraktion und Gegenst�ndlichkeit beispielhaft vor Augen und steht im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung einer zweiten Calder Gallery in der Fondation Beyeler. Pr�sentiert werden dort neben der Au�enskulptur und Calders Entwicklung hin zu gro�formatigen Werken aber auch Entw�rfe, die The Tree vorausgingen sowie selten gezeigte Werkgruppen aus den 1930er- bis 1950er-Jahren. Ausstellung: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel 8.6.2013 12.1.2014

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