Custom Made Mobile Sculpture featured in “The Upside” Trailer

In early 2017 I custom designed and made a mobile for the movie The Upside. Today the trailer for the film was released in which the mobile is featured several times:

The mobile looks like this (so you’ll recognize it):

The mobile sculpture in the trailer:

The movie, directed by Neil Burger and starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman, will be released on January 11th 2019.

From Hmm Daily: “A bomb-ass penthouse apartment … a setting which is exploited to the fullest in this film, giant rooms with floor-to ceiling windows, vestibules, hallways, high ceilings, terraces, double-sink bathrooms, along with the Bryan Cranston character’s multi-million-dollar contemporary art collection, a million bucks worth of art hanging on every wall in every goddamn room of the place, and a row of shiny high-end collectible automobiles.” See a list of prominent artworks from the credits from the film (including my mobile) at “The Upside” Is the Money

Movies and TV to Watch for the Interior Design (featuring The Upside)
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– Additional photos and info about the mobile sculpture in the movie –

New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 2

Additional snapshots of additional new abstract mobile sculptures that I’m currently working on:

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Mobile Contemporary

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Mobile Abstract

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Abstract Moving

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Abstract Kinetic

Photo of Contemporary Mobile Sculpture Artist

Photo of Contemporary Sculpture Mobile Artists

Each part in these mobiles is suspended and balanced. The balance structure in each mobile is essentially the same as in an classic Calder mobile, which is basically a whippletree mechanism turned upside down. They are suspended kinetic sculptures, each part is able to move independently with the air currents. They’re all made of steel.

Photo of Mobile Mobile Art Sculpture

These mobiles may be more contemporary in design, as opposed to some of the larger commissioned mobiles that I’ve made that are inspired by Alexander Calder‘s work (originator of the mobile sculpture) or some of the more mid-century modern mobiles. They also seem to be coming full circle back to some of the very first mobiles I made.

Photo of Contemporary Mobile Artist

Photo of Kinetic Art Sculpture

I’ll see your spider and raise you a centipede?

Photo of Kinetic Art Sculpture

Photo of Abstract Hanging Mobile

Photo of Contemporary Hanging Sculpture

I’m not sure yet what I’ll be doing with these mobiles. Maybe use them as maquettes for larger custom sculptures, or maybe finish them and see about an art gallery show for a change. Either way, they seem to be rather new, contemporary and original (and sometimes gravity defying?) to me, which I’m very excited about.

Photo of Gravity Defying Sculpture

Photo of Contemporary Hanging Sculpture

Photo of Abstract Hanging Sculpture Art Mobile

Photo of Abstract Hanging Wire Sculpture

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Ceiling

Photo of Hanging Sculpture Art

See New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 1
See an additional contemporary mobile sculpture
See more of my mobiles

Mobile Sculptures at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

Mobile Sculptures for sale at Art Basel Miami Beach December 7th – 10th 2017:

Roy Lichtenstein
Mobile I, 1989
Galerie Gmurzynska

FOS
Mobile, 2010
Nils Stærk

Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1967
Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery

Alexander Calder
Gypsophila on Black Skirt, 1950
Helly Nahmad Gallery

Helly Nahmad Gallery also showed and sold Rouge Triomphant, a large hanging mobile by Calder, at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2014.

Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1955
Helly Nahmad Gallery

Photo of Large Calder Mobile for sale

The above mobile sculpture measures 9 ft (2.74m) in height and 11 ft (3.35m) in width. It was made by Calder in India and can rotate full circle. Helly Nahmad Gallery is offering it for US$6.8 million.

Alexander Calder
Three Tentacles, 1975
Galerie Thomas

Alexander Calder
Untitled, 1974
Galería Leandro Navarro

Photo of Alexander Calder ABMB 2017 Mobile for sale

Martin Boyce
Untitled, 2017
The Modern Institute

Alexander Calder
Red Snail, 1959
Galerie Thomas

Tomás Saraceno
Cumulonimubus calvus/M+Mb, 2017
Esther Schipper

Tomás Saraceno
Foam 91p/Mn, 2017
Esther Schipper

Tomás Saraceno
NGC/IC/M, 2017
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Claire Falkenstein
Sun, 1960
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Photo of Bruce Nauman Hanging Sculpture for sale

The above sculpture reminds me of Swarm Chandelier by Zaha Hadid.

Bruce Nauman
Untitled (Two Wolves, Two Deer), 1989
Hauser & Wirth

Jorge Pardo
Untitled, 2015
neugerriemschneider

And some suspended sculptures for sale at Design Miami Dec 6th to–10th 2017:

Christopher Kurtz
Untitled #1, 2017
Patrick Parrish Gallery

Christopher Kurtz
Untitled, 2017
Patrick Parrish Gallery

Kasper Kjeldgaard
Talisman, 2017
Patrick Parrish Gallery

And a hanging mobile:
Kasper Kjeldgaard
Friction, 2017
Patrick Parrish Gallery

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Contemporary Mobile Sculpture – Distinct Appearances from Various Angles

Snapshots of a mobile in progress – as part of a new series of contemporary original mobile sculptures I’m currently working on. The 2-dimensional photos illustrate well the many different ways a mobile sculpture can appear from various angles:

Photo of Contemporary Mobile Sculpture

Same as the above linked-to sculptures, this mobile is a kinetic sculpture based on the same type of balance structure as a conventional Calder mobile, yet original and contemporary in design (architectural in design?).

Photo of Contemporary Mobile Sculpture