Voir les mobiles d'Alexander Calder en mouvement c'est possible : 1. des mises en mouvement de mobiles vous sont offertes chaque jour de l’exposition à 14 h, jusqu’au 24 février! 2. les courants d'air ambiants peuvent parfois les faire bouger très subtilement, il suffit d'observer attentivement. Faites-vite l'exposition se termine dans deux semaines! http://bit.ly/CalderMBAM - See Alexander Calder’s mobiles in motion: 1. the works are set in motion every day of the exhibition at 2 p.m., until Fe

“Sculpture suggests movement‚ paintings suggests depth or light. Calder suggests nothing. He captures true‚ living movements and crafts them into something. His mobiles signify nothing‚ refer to nothing other than themselves. They simply are: they are absolutes . . . These movements that intend only to please‚ to enchant our eyes‚ have nonetheless a profound and‚ as it were‚ metaphysical meaning.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946. View Red Mobile on display in Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor. #NGV •

Experiencing Calder’s mobiles firsthand is the only way to fully comprehend their multisensory brilliance, but this footage of Black Mobile with Hole in motion is an apt substitute. Unlike a photograph, the clip reveals how the sculpture carves new forms by way of its movements. As Sartre wrote in 1946, “These hesitations and resumptions, gropings and fumblings, sudden decisions, and, most especially, marvellous swan-like nobility make Calder’s mobiles strange creatures, mid-way between matter a