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The page marker is a pink satin ribbon

Several of the work’s notations are autobiographical: the trio of figures on the right depicts the artist with the rap musician Rammellzee and the painter Toxic

The overwhelming physicality of their scale and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture

Several drawings feature cascades of pencil markings

Pierre Descargues

Alexander Calder: Dinner Plates Mark Francis The page marker is aProduced by Bernardaud, this set includes six dinner plates, each featuring a reproduction of a different mobile by Alexander Calder. Calder developed a new method of sculptingbending and twisting wire to draw three dimensional figures in space. Predating Conceptual art by several decades, and resonating with the Futurists and Constructivists as well as with the language of early abstract painting, Calder gained renown for his invention of the mobile,