The Easel

28th April 2026

A Landmark Calder Exhibition with Over 300 of His Revolutionary Works Goes on View in Paris

A huge Calder retrospective in Paris marks the 100th anniversary of his arrival there. Mobile sculptures are represented in such numbers as to remind viewers they were a “graceful leap in sculptural syntax”. Sculpture, once characterised by “volume and mass”, could also be dainty and not in a fixed position. Movement introduced time in a work, allowing Calder’s mobiles to” become a fluid part of their own environment.”