Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy July 20, 2010
Chicago, Illinois 60611
This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, premieres the major traveling exhibition 'Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy,' the first exhibition to assess Calder's influence on the new generation of contemporary sculptors. The presentation of sixty of Calder's iconic works is mounted along with approximately twenty sculptures by seven contemporary artists who have been directly influenced by Calder: Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook. Calder has long been a popular and beloved modernist master, but it is only recently that young contemporary artists have turned to his work and its example of hands-on explorations of form, balance, color, and movement. The selection of Calder's works range from the 1940s to 1970s and are drawn from the MCA's extensive holdings that span his career, complemented by a remarkable array of works drawn from private collections in Chicago and major American public and private collections.
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MORE INFO The exhibition, EISENSTEIN: THE MEXICO YEARS (1931-1932) is sponsored by ArtOnWater gallery and includes 30 drawings from the facsimile edition entitled ?Mexican Motifs? published by Leningrad Ivan Fedorov Press in 1971 for the Association of Russian Film Makers.
Over his 25-year career, Soviet film director Serguei Mikhailovic Eisenstein was able to complete just six films, and most of these only with approved revisions and under the eyes of Stalinist censors. His major works include: Battleship Potemkin (1925), October?Ten Days That Shook The World (1927), Alexander Nevsky (1938), and Ivan The Terrible, Part 1 (1945).
His sketches, in themselves, are works of art. During this period, Eisenstein used clear lines and a surreal, flowing abstract style to create refreshingly innocent archetypes of peasants, bulls and bullfighters, indigenous peoples, as well as complex religious themes which pulse with energy.
Special events will be presented throughout October, including lecture and film showing evenings. Detailed schedule updates for month long events are posted at www.Upcoming.com
Jens and Meredith Johanessen can be reached in Northfield at 507 581-6585.
ArtOnWater provides unique artist?s gallery space in Northfield and new exhibits open every few months or so throughout the year. The gallery is located on the footbridge river walk on the west bank of the Cannon River in downtown Northfield just opposite the Archer House and The Northfield Arts Guild. We welcome inquiries regarding availability of space for individual artists or special exhibitions.
For Information contact: Dean W. Kjerland, 217 South Water Street, Ste. 101, Northfield, MN 55057, visit ?gallery? at www.archeopaleo.com, or tel. 507 645-1380