Beyeler gets the balance right
Alexander Calder and Fischli/Weiss, now on show at the Fondation Beyeler, seem an unlikely pairing for an exhibition. What does the Modernist mobile-maker have in common with the contemporary conceptual collaborators? Balance, movement and the potential for things to fall apart, says the shows curator, Theodora Vischer.
The obvious link, and what one thinks of first, Vischer says, is Fischli/Weisss Equilibres series (1984-87)photographs of precariously balanced sculptures made out of household
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