AUDIO GUIDE TRANSCRIPT

NARRATOR:

Calder was a truly international artist. During his lifetime, this work was exhibited multiple times, including in Brazil, New York, and Venezuela.

But the stone referred to in the title came from close to home; he picked it up near his studio in Roxbury, Connecticut.

The stone creates a dialogue with the man-made elements of the sculpture. Alexander S.C. Rower.

ALEXANDER S.C. ROWER:

Calder’s process of creation and composition was very intuitive. It was in the moment. It was in the spirit of the moment. It wasn't something that was planned. He didn't make diagrammatic plans for creating his sculptures.

NARRATOR:

It’s a way of working that resonates with artist Kennedy Yanko. 

KENNEDY YANKO:

He's clearly thinking in a way where he needs to explore something, where he needs to understand something in his own way, to his own hand. Maybe he was in the studio, and he just had the stone and just went and placed it on there or he had been thinking about it for a while and then placed it on there, and that moment, that decision is what transforms the piece into what you wanted it to be.

NARRATOR:

Found objects have an important role in Calder’s work. José Diaz.

JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ:

I really hope that visitors will walk through this exhibition and see Calder through an ecological lens. He was certainly resourceful – you’ll notice that there's works that incorporate wood, rocks, bits of material, or discarded objects – but also the fact that Calder could make art from the most ordinary materials and make something so complex, yet so beautiful.