AUDIO GUIDE TRANSCRIPT

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

This artwork is the largest mobile in the entire Jon and Kim Shirley collection.

NARRATOR:

Toile d’araigneée, translated as “spiderweb,” was named after Calder created it. The work is displayed in a way that helps us appreciate the scale of the work. Curator José Diaz.

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

What's so special about this particular mobile is that when you encounter it in the gallery, you'll have to look up, but you'll also notice that there's three overlooks that one can either look down upon you, or you can actually experience this particular mobile from above. And it really gives you a complex narrative…

NARRATOR:

Artist Kennedy Yanko.

KENNEDY YANKO:

You know, the fact that it's a mobile, it can't be isolated. It's in the midst of whatever is within the surrounding environment, and it becomes a part of it.

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

…Looking above you, but also looking around you to see that there's so many other Calder works in the exhibition space. 

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

If you look at it, this complex yet balanced sculpture, it looks so delicate; it feels so light.

KENNEDY YANKO:

And the coloring for this work I think elicits a sense of the invisible, like a ghost-like sense, and the gray kind of gives it this air of something that you may or may not see.

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

It can appear, disappear.

KENNEDY YANKO (continuing):

Maybe you don't notice it right away.