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
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
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
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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New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 1
Some snapshots of new mobile sculptures I’m currently working on:
These are true mobiles, meaning they are kinetic and based on the same balance structure as a Calder mobile, yet original and contemporary in design.
See New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 2
See an additional contemporary mobile sculpture
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Photos of Mobiles at the Mobile Show in Durham NC – Cyber Monday Sale
Photos by Carin Walsh of our 3D Printed Mobiles at The Mobile Show in Durham NC earlier this month:
The 3D printing company we use (Shapeways) has a cyber monday sale today (Nov 28 2016): Free shipping + 25% off your order with code SMALLBIZMONDAY via our shop.
Hanging and Standing Mobiles Exhibit – Call to Artists
Call to artists for The Mobile: Composition in Motion, an exhibit of hanging and standing mobiles at The Carrack in Durham, NC.
Artists working in any medium, regardless of mobile-making experience (learn to make mobiles), are invited to try their hand at creating innovative pieces that are set into motion through air current. Unique interpretations of mobiles as sculpture in motion are encouraged. Challenge what’s possible in terms of form, materials, construction, movement and scale.
The exhibit will also provide information that helps visitors understand the principles that commonly govern mobile construction and ways in which the exhibiting artists may have adhered to or defied those principles.
There is no submission fee for this juried exhibit and you can enter as many pieces as you like. The Carrack is a zero-commission art space and therefore 100% of any sale proceeds go directly to the artist.
The submission deadline is August 7th 2016. The exhibit opens November 9th 2016. Please see www.themobileshowdurhamnc.com for more details, and follow up-to-date information on Facebook and Instagram.
Update (Oct 31 2016):
Artists go ‘mobile’ at The Carrack
9 Original Calder Works Coming to Auction for the First Time
A group of nine works by Alexander Calder will be sold at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on May 10th 2016. All of them were made by Calder in 1955 while visiting Ambalal Sarabhai’s family estate in India. Calder spent three weeks at the secluded 20-acre estate, in a makeshift studio constructed in the garden with “a water-buffalo lady and a calf” for company, as he wrote in his book (Calder: An autobiography with pictures, 1966). This is the first time this group of Calder sculptures is coming to auction. Among the works to be auctioned:
Sumac #17
Hanging Mobile
Sheet metal, wire and paint
Inspired by the flowering plant of the same name
Estimated at US$4 million to US$6 million
[Update: Price Realized $5,765,000]
Related: Watch a 360-degree view of Calder’s large red mobile Sumac created in 1961.
How the visit to India came about, in Calder’s own words: “In 1954, I received a letter from a young Indian woman, Gira Sarabhai, youngest of eight children of a large wealthy family in Ahmedabad, which is somewhere halfway between Bombay and Delhi. She offered Louisa and me a trip to India, if I’d consent to make some objects for her when there. I immediately replied yes.”
Calder in India in 1955 (Louisa Calder, his wife, is seated atop the elephant):
Estimates range as high as US$10 million, with a total pre-sale estimate of around US$26 million to US$38 million.
Read The forgotten journey of Alexander Calder and view the e-Catalogue. Also see An Expert Look at Never-Before-Auctioned Alexander Calder Works and Mobile Revolution.
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Mobiles – 3D Models – Render Animations (Videos)
A number of render animations I’ve put together of custom mobile designs:
To see the separate full length videos, please go to my YouTube channel.
Photos of Large Atrium Sculpture (Kinetic Art Mobile) Installed
Photos of a large atrium sculpture (kinetic mobile) I custom designed, made and installed (via The Art Company) at the newly built Joint and Spine Center at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, last month (August 2015):
I competed against 22 sculptors for the commission including Zaha Hadid.
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The sculpture measures 33ft (10m) in height and 26ft (8m) in diameter.
The largest shape is 5 2/3 ft long (1 3/4 m), the longest arm measures 17 3/4 ft (5 1/2 m) in length.
Made of aluminum, the mobiles weighs only about 100 pounds (45kg).
Two photos from the Grand Opening Celebration on August 28th 2015:
Render animation of the 3D model of the mobile:
The hospital is located on a hilltop in historic Mt. Auburn above downtown Cincinnati. The view from the hospital’s rooftop garden:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) designed the new Joint and Spine Center, the same architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban planning firm that also collaborated with Alexander Calder on numerous projects from the 1950s through the 1970s. A view from outside of the suspended sculpture in the atrium:
The 125 year old Christ Hospital is consistently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s top hospitals. Here’s an outside view of the newly built Joint and Spine Center with the atrium in which the sculpture is installed at the main entrance:
These are photos that I took myself. Professional photos should follow within a month. Here’s one by Tom Rossiter for Health Care Design Magazine:
Thanks to Mike Rainer of Mike’s Machine & Welding for assisting with the fabrication of the mobile.
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Proposals / Custom Designs for Large Mobiles for a Three-Story Atrium
Proposals / custom designs for large mobiles for a three-story atrium:
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