Calder / Hiquily: Balancing Act

A clever juxtaposition of works by two masters of the poetry of balance and movement that reveals unexpected harmonies between the artistic languages of Alexander Calder and Philippe Hiquily. Calder’s gouaches on paper, with their bold colours and rhythmic compositions, provide a visual counterpoint to Hiquily’s sculptural explorations of balance, weightlessness, and abstraction. These works, essential to Calder’s creative process, exhibit the same principles that animate his mobiles, two of which are included in this exhibition – New Old Universe (1953), an elegant example of his ‘constellations’, and Caged Stone on Yellow Stalk (1966), a rare standing mobile. With these works are four of Hiquily’s Girouette mobiles, each representing a different season.

To 4 May.

Above left: Alexander Calder, Bunny Eared Horse (1971). Right: Philippe Hiquily, La Reorneadora (2006)