This exhibition consists of of outdoor monumental sculptures by Alexander Calder–situated against Gstaad's dramatic mountainous landscape, the exhibition comprises a standing mobile and five stabiles from the 1960s and 1970s, which will be installed in public locations including at Lauenensee, Kirche Saanen, on the Promenade and in the grounds of Le Grand Bellevue hotel in Gstaad.
Calder concentrated his efforts on making outdoor sculptures on a monumental scale during the later part of his career, turning his attention to major commissions for cities, museums and universities around the world—working with renowned architects along the way. A paradigm shift in the history of twentieth-century sculpture, his large-scale works in industrial materials reveal the artist's lifelong fascination with energy and space, creating a new relationship between object and environment. With these graceful and fluid works, Calder truly unleashed his creativity and genius for compositional balance, imbuing traditional sculptural form with a dynamism and torsion that belies its static nature.
Calder's massive sculptures engage the invisible forces of gravity, air, time and chance, brought buoyantly to life through simple figures, organic shapes, and abstract elements of bolted steel plate that coalesce to form a complex interplay of interjecting forms and negative space.
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