Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art creates colorful Alexander Calder exhibit

25.06.10

CHICAGO — Colourful mobiles made from boldly painted coating metal and steel wires will wait above visitors' heads this summer as the Museum of Coincidental Art displays an exhibit of 60 works by Alexander Calder.

But this Calder show, which debuts Saturday, doesn't only main film the artist's abstract pieces in the museum's beneficent, white main-floor gallery. In an equally sturdy gallery across the way, dozens of works by immature artists who have a Calderesque style are on think of.

The idea of juxtaposing Calder's works alongside those from a younger reproduction came from museum curator Lynne Warren. Warren sought out well-defined artists who were looking to Calder. Her aim was to assess his effect on contemporary artists.

"We really have the superb of both worlds here," Warren said. "We can also learn more about Calder by looking at him through the eyes of coexistent sculptors."

Calder was revolutionary in his advancement as a sculptor, making movable parts in his works and creating what became known as the quick.

Source: The Canadian Press