Mobile (sculpture)

A Mobile [ mo: bilə ] is a free-hanging, balanced, lightweight structure that is already moved from a weak draft. The term comes from the French ( adjective: mobile " movable, adjustable, rotating, loose, fig lively. " Noun ". Moving body, fig motive, opportunity, motivation, drive " mobile ). The term was coined in 1931 by Marcel Duchamp for the early works of Alexander Calder. Duchamp had in 1913 the term "mobile" for his first readymade, a bicycle wheel used and experimented with since moving in his multifaceted work. Thus, one expects mobile to kinetic art.

The Mobile as an art form was brought by Alexander Calder to perfection. Here are three quotes from him:

" A mobile is an abstract sculpture, which is made ​​mostly of metal plates, steel pipe, wire and wood. All or some of its components are rotated by electric motors, wind, water or by hand in motion. "

"Why not plastic forms in motion? Do not just translated or rotary motion but different movements of different types, speed and range combined with each other, form a whole. Just as one can compose colors or shapes, so you can compose motions. "

"If all goes well, is a mobile one piece of poetry, dancing and surprised joy of living. "

Cited by

  • Jacob Baal - Teshuva: Alexander Calder 1898-1976. Publisher Taschen, ISBN 3-8228-7915-0

Molding

Alexander Calder created mobiles with three different building types:

  • Mobiles with stand
  • Wall Mounted Mobile
  • Hanging from the ceiling, floating Mobiles ( still the most popular form ).

There are small, seemingly playful mobiles, whose sizes vary from a few centimeters to one meter, and large outdoor Mobiles with spans up to 20 m. Inspired by Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, Calder preferred the primary colors blue, red, yellow and achromatic colors black and white.

The artist Jörg- Tilmann Hinz manufactures large mobile steel whose parts are not attached to each other, but are connected by means of bearings firmly together.

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