"Calder Gardens, a new space in which to experience the works of Alexander Calder, is scheduled to open on 21 September in the artist's hometown of Philadelphia. The $70m project comprises a building complex with a series of subterranean galleries and open-air pavilions surrounded by panoramic gardens. It is a "sacred place" where visitors can "engage with Calder's work in a way that has not been possible before", says Alexander S. C. Rower, the president of the Calder Foundation and the artist's grandson. "This is a place to simply be present without the oppressive atmosphere and strict rules of the typical museum experience.""
"The new site is located on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, across from the Rodin Museum and the Barnes Foundation, along an axis of works of art by three generations of Calders. To the south-east, there is a 19th-century statue of William Penn by the artist's grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder. In the middle at Logan Square, his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, created the Swann Memorial Fountain (1924). And to the north-west, Calder's mobile The Ghost (1964) hangs in the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
Calder Gardens opens on 21 September in Philadelphia as a $70m complex of subterranean galleries, open-air pavilions and panoramic gardens. The site sits on Benjamin Franklin Parkway opposite the Rodin Museum and the Barnes Foundation and aligns with public works by three generations of Calders, including sculptures by Alexander Milne Calder and Alexander Stirling Calder and Calder's The Ghost at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The project emphasizes a mindful, framed experience of art and environment, omits wall labels, and will rotate works from the Calder Foundation alongside loans from institutions such as MoMA and the Whitney.
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