""I'm hoping that Calder Gardens will really actually be a place for introspection,""
""We really want you to be able to have an unmitigated experience. We want nobody between you and the art,""
""My grandfather realized you could draw a figure in a wire - like, a two-dimensional drawing but expanded in three dimensions. Make a volumetric drawing of a person, a portrait, or an acrobat, or an animal, or some scene, and creating something that was experienced by people in a very different way than you would a solid mass.""
Calder Gardens opens in Philadelphia this fall as an indoor/outdoor sanctuary named for Alexander Calder. Thirty-one Calder works fill the garden, designed to encourage reflection, contemplation and direct encounters with art without intermediaries. Sculptures will interact with the changing seasons so artworks complement an evolving landscape. The garden's cyclical character mirrors Calder's practice of expanding two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional volumetric wire forms experienced differently than solid mass. The space embraces unconventional presentation by making physical space part of the artwork and inviting visitors to enter and form their own experiences. The Barnes Foundation presents a Henri Rousseau exhibition this season.
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