ALEXANDER CALDER y FISCHLI / WEISS

The American artist Alexander Calder (18981976) and Swiss artists Peter Fischli (*1952) and David Weiss (19462012) have sought and found quintessential ways of rendering a moment of fragile balance in arta temporary state at once precarious and propitious. With Calders groundbreaking invention of the mobile in the early nineteen thirties, and Fischli/Weisss collaborative creative work fro m 1979 onwards, these artists each lent the theme of fragile balance an iconic form of a very different kind. At first glance, both positions coul...[Llegir més]