Alexander Calder: A Balancing Line

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art is honoured to present a major exhibition, organised through a collaboration with the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, that is dedicated to one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century — Alexander Calder.

The exhibition traces the development of the artist’s unique vision through a selection of his early figurative works and those created over his five decades of involvement with abstract form. They include some of Calder’s most significant works from his Paris years, made in wire, created at the same time as his Cirque Calder, and an important group of mobiles from the 1940s. In the year in which we are commemorating the centenary of Serralves Park, the exhibition also reveals a crucial set of Calder’s monumental sculptures in the gardens.

The exhibition is curated by the Museum Director, Philippe Vergne.