While I adore Alexander Calder Le Faucon, my favorite piece of Calder’s would be Cirque Calder: a mechanized miniature circus he performed before an audience: “I was very fond of the spatial relations… The whole thing of— the vast space—I’ve always loved it.”
The universe is real but you can’t see it.
You have to imagine it.
Once you imagine it,
you can be realistic about reproducing it.
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder Le Faucon (The Falcon)
Stanford Law School, part of the Cantor Arts Center collection
Le Faucon (The Falcon, 1961) was fabricated at the iron works Etablissements Biémont in Tours, located near Calder’s studio in Saché, France. The art work remained in front of his studio from the time of its completion until after Calder’s death in 1976.