Photos: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc. © 2015 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Courtesy: Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York . + Dominique Lévy Gallery
Taking its title, MULTUM IN PARVO, from the Latin phrase meaning “much in little,” the exhibition explores the ways in which Alexander Calder’s most diminutive works, ranging from thumbsized to thirty inches tall, achieve monumental impact. These sculptures often share the same physical properties as Calder’s largest stabiles and mobiles, but by means of the tiniest details. Presented in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, the exhibition at Dominique Lévy casts a spotlight for the first time on the complex and often surprising relationship between scale and form in Calder’s oeuvre over a period of more than thirty years. The show includes one of his smallest sculptures from the 1950s that measures just over one inch high—a miracle of miniature.
Dominique Lévy Gallery
