MELBOURNE.- After delighting more than 150,000 visitors at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), the exhibition Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor start its run at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. On display since April 5 and until August 4, 2019, this retrospective of a giant of modern art is the first to be presented in Australia.

The Calder retrospective is the second MMFA-produced exhibition to be presented at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia's oldest public art gallery, which attracts more than three million visitors annually. The NGV also presented the Australian premiere of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk in 2014.

"We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring the first major Calder retrospective to Australia, a collaboration that brings together the NGV, known for its innovative programming, with one of the most inventive sculptors of the 20th century," said Anne Grace, the exhibition's curator and Curator of Modern Art, MMFA, and Nathalie Bondil, MMFA Director General and Chief Curator.

Developed, organized and circulated by the MMFA, the exhibition Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor was also the first retrospective in Canada to presents an original reading of the singularity of the artist's work and contribution to art history. A radical inventor, Calder not only introduced a new dimension to sculpture but changed the way we experience art in the modern world, based on a series of novel concepts. Beyond the actual objects on display, the exhibition draws attention to the space they occupy.

Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor comes with a catalogue ddited and written by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Guest Curator of the exhibition, and Anne Grace, Curator of Modern Art, MMFA. Awarded a Grafika Prize for the quality of its edition, the book presents recent researches posit a new range of interdisciplinary sources at the origin of Calder's inventions.