In Mies van der Rohe's renovated Neue Nationalgalerie, a delightful opening exhibition has been assembled with mobiles by Alexander Calder (1898-1976).
“Ein Stabile sollte man umrunden oder durchqueren. Ein Mobile tanzt vor einem”, Alexander Calder said.
"A stabile must be circled or traversed. A mobile dances for you."
Jean Paul Sartre described Calder's mobiles as not entirely alive and not entirely mechanical. Between the organic and the mechanical.
Freed from the socle, Calder played with space. A release from the earth. A triangular relationship at its sharpest; the work, the space and I, the viewer.
