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Be among the first to preview this major presentation of Alexander Calder works drawn from the MCA’s extensive holdings and Chicago area and national public and private collections, along with new works by several sculptors who have been directly influenced by Calder.
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Exhibitions
- Becoming the Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder–
- Short A screen capture of a YouTube video shows a small yellow mobile on a table. Above it, a person with red lips appears to blow on it.
- Short A screen capture of a YouTube video shows a small yellow mobile on a table. Above it, a person with red lips appears to blow on it.
- Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons–
- Short Small white circles connected by thin wire balance opposite a thicker orange wire weighted by an orange rudder-like shape hanging from the edge of a white table.
- MCA DNA:Alexander Calder–
- Short A mobile sculpture resembles a cat with a red face.
- Long A standing mobile in the shape of a cat has three metal parts held together with wires and chains: a black body with a curly tail and two legs is framed by three flat white trapezoids to the left a red cat face to the right.
- Alexander Calder in Focus: Works from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan–
- Short A mobile sculpture resembles a cat with a red face.
- Long A standing mobile in the shape of a cat has three metal parts held together with wires and chains: a black body with a curly tail and two legs is framed by three flat white trapezoids to the left a red cat face to the right.
Collection
- On viewAlexander Calder, Snowflakes and Red Stop, 1964
- Short An intricately designed mobile consists of many spindled arms ending in small circles. Most of the circles are white, but one is red.
- Alexander Calder, Bird, c. 1952
- Short A bird sculpture with wings extended appears to be made out of found materials like a soup can and rusted wire.