Alexander Calder: Tentative

Pace, Los Angeles presents a special exhibition of artwork by Alexander Calder, selected and installed by artist Richard Tuttle, currently on view through February 25. “Calder/Tuttle: Tentative,” in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, concentrates on the year 1939 in the artist’s oeuvre, offering little seen sculptures and works on paper. Alongside the show, Tuttle debuts his own works at LA’s David Kordansky Gallerywhich are in direct dialogue with Calder’s mobiles and architectural commissions. Special presentations by Calder at Pace include Gothic Construction from Scraps (1939), a standing mobile of discarded metal forms, Little Mobile for Table’s Edge (ca. 1939), an especially delicate design, and monochromatic, surreal pencil drawings. Tuttle sets the scene for Calder’s otherworldly works: the onset of World War II, and thus poses a philosophical conversation of light and dark.