11/08/2026
The major Alexander Calder retrospective in France, titled Calder. Rêver en équilibre (Dreaming in Balance), is on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris through August 16, 2026. Marking the centenary of his arrival in France and 50 years since his death, it features nearly 300 works spanning his career.
Whether we’re aware of it or not, everything is moving all the time. The earth is spinning on its axis and orbiting the sun. Every molecule within us is vibrating, spinning and morphing. Movement orchestrates life’s delicate, beautiful chaos. Alexander Calder knew this essential fact of life. He devoted most of his career to expressing movement’s beauty.
Calder’s mobiles, abstract, kinetic sculptures designed to move freely in space, communicated better than any art that came before them that along with form, mass, time and space, movement is an essential factor that defines the physical universe. The enormous body of work Calder created over the course of his life included drawings, paintings, lithographic prints, jewelry, stage decorations, costumes and sculpture, and left a legacy of whimsy, beauty and wonder. His seemingly endless ability to innovate, along with his love of hard work, made him one of Modernism’s most influential artists, as well as one of its most universally beloved.
