Calder: Extreme Cantilever

Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Calder: Extreme Cantilever, an unprecedented exhibition that brings together for the first time Alexander Calder’s three cantilever sculptures alongside a curated selection of oil paintings, works on paper, and historically significant artefacts.

This exhibition illustrates a pivotal shift in Calder’s formal and conceptual approach to spatial abstraction amid the global upheaval of the Second World War. On loan from the Calder Foundation and esteemed private collections, Calder’s three standing mobiles – Extreme Cantilever, More Extreme Cantilever, and Extrême porte à faux III – showcase the artist’s unbridled imagination and intuitive genius that cement him as one of the 20th century’s foremost innovators.