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A wide-ranging selection of works from Calder's most prolific period highlights the role of time in his groundbreaking sculptural practice

Francisco Goya claimed in 1801 that "time also paints." More than 200 years later, this quote, now turned maxim, could refer to the way in which time modifies how we relate to art. A more conceptual interpretation could also be held where time itself is the medium. Taken in this last interpretation, few artists have understood this notion better than Alexander Calder.
Sculpting Time explores time as a medium in Calder's work: both as an integral part of his kinetic sculpture and as an external factor vis-à-vis the grand developments of the 20th century. This is best exemplified in his earliest sphériques as well as the Constellations (a term coined by Marcel Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney in 1943) he created out of wood and wire during World War II, when sheet metal was not available. By introducing motion into a static art form, Calder implies the passage of time; thus, time also sculpts. This handsome clothbound volume, printed on Tatami paper, is filled with contemporary images of works from the 1930s to the 1970s, as well as archival photographs of Calder's studio.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) moved to Paris in the late 1920s, where he found himself at the center of the city's artistic avant-garde. In 1930, he invented the mobile--an abstract sculpture made of independent parts that incorporate natural or mechanical movement. He would continue to explore the possibilities of this visual language for the rest of his career, eventually shifting to monumental constructions and public works.

The volume documents the profound and transformative impact of Alexander Calder, one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century. Calder (1898-1976) in fact changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture, introducing the fourth dimension of time in art with its legendary mobiles - a term coined by Marcel Duchamp which in French refers to both "motion" and "motive" - and exploring the volumes and voids in the stabiles, his stationary objects, so named by Jean Arp.

Over thirty masterpieces made between 1930 and 1960 - Calder's most innovative and prolific years - are brought together in these pages from the earliest abstractions orsphériques to a magnificent selection of /mobiles/, stabiles andstanding mobiles of various sizes, as well as a wide range of Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist's beloved objects made of wood and wire in 1943, a period when metal was scarce due to the Second World War.