Alexander Calder: Dinner Plates Mark Francis Its quicksilver appeal is evident

Its quicksilver appeal is evident in the undulating

Several drawings feature cascades of pencil markings

The overwhelming physicality of their scale and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture

Pierre Descargues

Alexander Calder: Dinner Plates Mark Francis Its quicksilver appeal is evidentProduced by Bernardaud, this set includes six dinner plates, each featuring a reproduction of a different mobile by Alexander Calder. Calder developed a new method of sculptingbending and twisting wire to draw three dimensional figures in space. Predating Conceptual art by several decades, and resonating with the Futurists and Constructivists as well as with the language of early abstract painting, Calder gained renown for his invention of the mobile,