Unfolding across all five gallery spaces, this major solo exhibition 'Alexander Calder. From the Stony River to the Sky’ features almost 100 works including large-scale outdoor pieces which are set within the gardens of Durslade Farm.

Five stabiles and a standing mobile bridge the link between the works on view in the galleries and the surrounding Somerset landscape. In Oudolf Field ‘Funghi Neri’, created for the XI Triennale di Milano in 1957, sits alongside ‘Polygons on Triangles’ (1963) whose sheet metal planes slice through space and sculpt volumes out of voids.

Calder was one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the twentieth century, transforming the very nature of sculpture by introducing the fourth dimension and the actuality of real-time experience into his work. Known primarily for his invention of the mobile, Calder created a prolific oeuvre that extended to wire sculpture, carved figures, stabiles, standing mobiles, oil paintings, works on paper, jewellery, furniture and domestic objects, and monumental public commissions across the globe.

'Alexander Calder. From the Stony River to the Sky’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from 26 May – 9 September 2018.

All works © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York / DACS, London

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