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Calder X Mies: Reflections on Alexander Calder and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
With the exhibition Calder X Mies, Kicken Berlin pays homage to two major figures of twentieth-century Modernism. Timed for the reopening of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the concurrent exhibition there devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder, the show is part of the collaborative project Mies in Mind, a circuit of exhibitions at thirty Berlin galleries celebrating the Neue Nationalgalerie, Mies’s unique contribution to architecture, and Calder’s extraordinary sculptural output.
Much as Alexander Calder and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe explored various forms of art, from sculpture and drawing to jewelry and furniture design, so generations of photographers – including Joachim Brohm, Louis Faurer, André Kertész, Klaus Kinold, Herbert Matter, Arnold Newman, and Sasha Stone, to name just a few – entered into polyphonic dialogue with the works of these two masters. Contemporary photographers like Brohm and Kinold have approached Mies’s oeuvre with a deep awareness of the history of Modernism.
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With the exhibition Calder X Mies, Kicken Berlin pays homage to two major figures of twentieth-century Modernism. Timed for the reopening of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the concurrent exhibition there devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder, the show is part of the collaborative project Mies in Mind, a circuit of exhibitions at thirty Berlin galleries celebrating the Neue Nationalgalerie, Mies’s unique contribution to architecture, and Calder’s extraordinary sculptural output.
Much as Alexander Calder and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe explored various forms of art, from sculpture and drawing to jewelry and furniture design, so generations of photographers – including Joachim Brohm, Louis Faurer, André Kertész, Klaus Kinold, Herbert Matter, Arnold Newman, and Sasha Stone, to name just a few – entered into polyphonic dialogue with the works of these two masters. Contemporary photographers like Brohm and Kinold have approached Mies’s oeuvre with a deep awareness of the history of Modernism.
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