Oct 13, 2017
The motion of Alexander Calder’s Red Sticks (c. 1943) is variable. When activated, the work’s components create X’s in the air, passing each other by and tricking the eye with foreshortening so that the piece looks nearly unrecognizable from one moment to the next. Although the wooden dowels seem to move around a central axis, the strings that hold them together are subtly staggered, causing the wingspan of the work to expand and contract. See it as part of Calder: Hypermobility, on view through October 23.
[© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
