Five Points/Triangles by Alexander Calder, 1957
All images via Gagosian Gallery unless otherwise noted

Currently on view at Gagosian Gallery, New York is an exhibition of the large-format sculptures of Alexander Calder, produced between 1957 and 1970. The exhibition pays tribute to the late oeuvre of this renowned American sculptor, illuminating the period when Calder almost exclusively dedicated himself to sculpture of monumental proportions – the genre that brought him the international acclaim.

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Juan Muñoz’s Hanging Figure, part of the retrospective of his work now showing at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Image courtesy of the Museum.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is hosting a retrospective of the works of Juan Muñoz.  The show is rotating between the Tate Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, and Serralves Foundation and will leave its current home on August 31, 2009.  This the most complete retrospective of the artist’s work to date, even featuring works never before exhibited.  The retrospective spans sixteen years, since Muñoz’s first solo exhibition in 1984 to the last piece he finished before his death in 2001.  The retrospective  is organized and curated in collaboration with Tate Modern.

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Exhibitions
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Juan Muñoz [artist page]

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Juan Muñoz, Conversation Piece, courtesy of the Museum.

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Liubov Popova’s magazine cover design for Questions of Stenography, at SMCA. Via The Guardian.

Greece’s State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) is showing works by “two of the most important artists of the Russian avant-garde,” Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova.  The 350 paintings, drawings, constructions, photographs, and essays featured in the exhibition are drawn 15 institutions from around the world, including 60 works which the SMCA donated from the collection of George Costakis.  Showing in the Moni Lazaraston exhibition hall, the exhibition travels to the State Museum from a successful run at London’s Tate Modern, which drew over 102,100 visitors.  After its close at the State Museum on September 20, “Defining Constructivism” will continue its tour of Europe with a move to Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, where it will remain through January 2010.

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Rodechenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism [SMCA]
Aleksandr Rodchenko on artnet
Liubov Popova on artnet

Aleksandr Rodchenko’s illustration for the Young Guard magazine (1924), at SMCA. Via studio international.

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