{"id":24319,"date":"2026-08-10T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/evenements\/calder-au-coeur-de-la-france-festival-artchipel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:10:38","slug":"calder-au-coeur-de-la-france-festival-artchipel","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/evenements\/calder-au-coeur-de-la-france-festival-artchipel\/","title":{"rendered":"Calder au c\u0153ur de la France &#8211; festival AR(t]CHIPEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Exactly one hundred years ago, the American artist Alexander Calder (1898\u20131976) left the United States for France. To mark this anniversary, the Centre Pompidou and the Region Centre-Val de Loire are joining forces to organise <a href=\"https:\/\/artchipel.centre-valdeloire.fr\/calder-au-coeur-de-la-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an event on an exceptional scale<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">During the 1930s, Calder established himself as one of the foremost modern sculptors of his era, renowned for his mobiles, suspended sculptures in perpetual motion. Calder maintained a deep affection for France throughout his life, eventually settling in 1953 in the village of Sach\u00e9, in Touraine, where he purchased a house named Fran\u00e7ois 1er. A decade later, in 1963, he built a spacious studio at Le Carroi, perched above the Indre Valley.<\/span><i> <\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">There, in collaboration with Etablissements Bi\u00e9mont in Tours, he conceived and assembled many of his stabiles \u2013 his signature monumental sculptures composed of riveted sheet metal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The exhibition trail spans the region, encompassing fifteen cultural venues, historic monuments, museums and art centres. Each exhibition offers visitors the chance to discover a facet of Calder\u2019s art, from sculpture and drawing to decorative arts and grand-scale masterpieces that reflect the character of their setting. This region-wide celebration underscores the vital role played in Calder\u2019s artistic journey by central France \u2013 a place where he was free to unleash his creativity and flourish artistically. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To mark the occasion, the CCC OD is exhibiting in the nave two mobiles and one free-standing sculpture created by the artist between 1940 and 1950. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curators:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ariane Coulondre: Curator, Modern Collections Department \u2013 Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019Art Moderne<\/li>\n<li>Alfred Pacquement: Honorary Director of the Centre Pompidou \u2013 Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019Art Moderne<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Watson: Art historian, Centre Pompidou \u2013 Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019Art Moderne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24301\" src=\"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-300x50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-1024x172.png 1024w, https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-768x129.png 768w, https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-1536x258.png 1536w, https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-2048x344.png 2048w, https:\/\/cccod.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Artchipel_RCVL_Pompidou_Largeur_Fond_Blanc_RVB-700x118.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An exhibition organised as part of the AR(t]CHIPEL 2026 festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With the support of the Calder Foundation and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly one hundred years ago, the American artist Alexander Calder (1898\u20131976) left the United States for France. To mark this anniversary, the Centre Pompidou and the Region Centre-Val de Loire are joining forces to organise an event on an exceptional scale. During the 1930s, Calder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[969,135],"class_list":["post-24319","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-alexander-calder","mec_category-exposition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/24319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24319"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=24319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}