Tim Prentice: After the Mobile
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present After the Mobile, a two-part solo exhibition by artist Tim Prentice (b. 1930), known for his innovative work in the field of motion in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition in the state since 1999. The exhibition will feature twenty indoor works, five outdoor works, and a video portrait of the artist, presented both in the Museum鈥檚 galleries and Sculpture Garden, with the indoor exhibition on view from March 29 to October 4, 2021, and the outdoor installation on view from September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022.
The title of the exhibition refers to Alexander Calder, a former Connecticut resident who in the 1930s adopted the term mobile at the urging of Marcel Duchamp to describe his balanced, moving wind-driven constructions. Calder鈥檚 playful Mobiles, and later George Rickey鈥檚 delicately balanced minimalist, kinetic sculpture, each defined their time. Prentice鈥檚 contribution to the field strongly relates to the rise in the past half century of systems theory, the understanding that cohesive systems are interrelated and independent parts are resilient to external disruption, having the ability to move but always returning to their original form. Prentice鈥檚 seemingly complex but simple systems of bent, articulated wire and metal or plastic planes are incredibly sensitive to moving air and seem to be extremely fragile, but are actually quite robust, giving in to the wind鈥檚 force, but always recovering with their motion revealing the rippling and fluid patterns of moving air.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present After the Mobile, a two-part solo exhibition by artist Tim Prentice (b. 1930), known for his innovative work in the field of motion in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition in the state since 1999. The exhibition will feature twenty indoor works, five outdoor works, and a video portrait of the artist, presented both in the Museum鈥檚 galleries and Sculpture Garden, with the indoor exhibition on view from March 29 to October 4, 2021, and the outdoor installation on view from September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022.
The title of the exhibition refers to Alexander Calder, a former Connecticut resident who in the 1930s adopted the term mobile at the urging of Marcel Duchamp to describe his balanced, moving wind-driven constructions. Calder鈥檚 playful Mobiles, and later George Rickey鈥檚 delicately balanced minimalist, kinetic sculpture, each defined their time. Prentice鈥檚 contribution to the field strongly relates to the rise in the past half century of systems theory, the understanding that cohesive systems are interrelated and independent parts are resilient to external disruption, having the ability to move but always returning to their original form. Prentice鈥檚 seemingly complex but simple systems of bent, articulated wire and metal or plastic planes are incredibly sensitive to moving air and seem to be extremely fragile, but are actually quite robust, giving in to the wind鈥檚 force, but always recovering with their motion revealing the rippling and fluid patterns of moving air.
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