Alexander Calder – Quatre Systemes Rouges
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Louisiana Poster with the work, Quatre Systemes Rouges , by American artist Alex Da Corte (b. 1980). Acrobats, tightrope walkers and celestial planets were a major source of inspiration for many of Calder's sculptures. What they have in common is that they are constantly in motion, and that this movement appears to occur almost freely in space.
But invisible forces ultimately determine how they move. In his sculptures, Calder wanted not just to show movement, but also to capture it and make visible the forces that bound the movement.
Many have tried to describe the playful grace of Calder's sculptures. The French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre, thus:
A Calder object is like the sea. Eternally repeated, always new. One look at it is not enough. You have to live with it every day and let yourself be enchanted.
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