The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Date
Curator
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Curator, and Anne Grace, Exhibitions Curator at the MMFA, under the direction of Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator of the MMFA
The MMFA is presenting the first major Canadian retrospective of Alexander Calder (1898–1976) to highlight all the many facets of this artist’s extraordinarily innovative multidisciplinary practice. He’s also known as the sculptor who set art in motion.
Editors' Comment
Montreal is one of the few Canadian cities to be home to the public installation of an Alexander Calder sculpture; for Expo 67, the artist installed Trois disques (man) on Ile St-Hélène, where it still stands today. Thus Montreal is a fitting home to the first major Canadian retrospective of the artist, happening this fall. Among the attractions are 100 works that range from “paintings and drawings to wire circus figures, hanging and standing mobiles, sheet-metal stabiles as well as jewellery”—a sampling of Calder’s skill across both scales and media.