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State Museum of fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin is Russia's first retrospective of the American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976). The exposition acquaints with half a century of history of creative searches eminent author, whose art had a great influence on the development of artistic ideas of the twentieth century. A pioneer of kinetic art, Alexander Calder for the first time made movable and sculpture pronicheva@

9 June to 30 August in the Main building of the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin will be shown 56 works of the master, created from 1927 to 1976. Exhibition curator — Alexander S. rohwer, President of the Calder Foundation, the grandson of the artist. "The exhibition Alexander Calder in the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin has a special meaning. As in 1931, the invention of the "mobile" Calder solved the problem posed at the beginning of the XX century Russian constructivists: to pass the motion in its purest form", @notes mdash Alexander S. Rower@

the Exhibition is open early wire sculptures by Calder in Paris, where he first came in 1926. Using a wire to simulate a form the wizard opens a fundamentally new plastic language. To emphasize the difference between his kinetic works from traditional sculptures of marble, bronze and clay, Calder prefers to call them "objects". Created from wire figures of animals, circus acrobats, portraits of celebrities and friends of the artist such as "drawings in space". Among the famous works of this period — presented at the exhibition "Helen wills" (1927), a large-scale composition "Hercules with the lion" (1928) and plural "circus arena" (1929). In the mid 1930-х of years, through a passion for painting Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder creates abstract sculptural composition "mobiles", thanks to the self-moving streams of air. One of the first works done in this vein, became mobile "Red, white, black and copper" (1934).

After the Second World war, when new cultural capital becomes new-Йорк, the exhibition Alexander Calder are in the U.S. and other countries. The design of the sculptures in this period become more complex, the artist actively uses moving parts with through holes. This period is represented by works: "Red dominates" (1947) with reflective elements, "Aspen" (1948), "Blue feather" (1948), as well as legendary work "Black mobile with hole" (1954), first shown in 1964/1965, at the Guggenheim Museum in retrospect Caldera@

Last twenty years of his life Calder devoted to the creation of a monumental "stable" — sculptures that form today the appearance of many areas in different cities of the world. In the process of creation of these works of Calder created a miniature model, which subsequently, under the guidance of the author have been translated into the desired size. The original maquettes for monumental compositions Calder presented in a separate room, closing the exposure. Among them are such famous works as "Jerusalem" (1975) and "Morning cobwebs" (1967).

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the Exhibition in the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin — the first retrospective of Alexander Calder in Russia. But acquainted the Russian public with the work of this artist was held in 1959 at the American national exhibition, organized by the United States Information Agency in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. The master was then represented by two works: "Big black "Moscow" mobile" (1957), which received its name on that occasion, and large-scale stable "Semynoha creature" (1957), now in the collections of the Museum of American art Whitney in Нью-Йорке.

the Exhibition "Alexander Calder. Retrospective" organized by the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin in close collaboration with the Calder Foundation, new-Йорк). The exhibition features 53 works from the collection Fund and sculpture from private collections and the only work by Alexander Calder from the collections of the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin — gouache, donated by the author to the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter in 1970 godu@

According to the Director of the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin, Marina Loshak, "Moving abstract compositions by Alexander Calder in the twenty-first century continue to excite the imagination of people is exactly the same as it was 80 years ago when they were first presented to the public. Fancy mobiles of Alexander Calder are a reflection of his views on the comprehensive processes of motion in the Universe, about the whirl of life itself. His attraction to the space and biomorphic forms, as clearly illustrated not only in three-dimensional objects, but in a number of graphic works and paintings presented at the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkin".

Curator: Alexander S. Rohwer, President Of The Calder Foundation. Curators-хранители: Alexandra Danilova, Deputy head. The Department of art of Europe and America, XIX–XX centuries, Natalia Kortunov, senior researcher of the Department of art of the countries of Europe and America, XIX–XX vekov@

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