Cahiers d'Art: Calder in France: La Revue No. 1, 2015 (39th Year)

Cahiers d'Art resumed publication in 2012 after a half-century silence, and this 2015 number turns the revue's own archive back on one of its subjects: Alexander Calder's French decades, told through the studios he worked in.

Produced with the Calder Foundation to mark twenty-five years of the Atelier Calder residency, the issue follows Calder from his Paris years of 1926–33 through his return in 1946, Aix-en-Provence in 1953, and finally Saché in the Loire valley, where he designed his last monumental studio in 1963. Archival documentation reconstructs each workplace, and reprinted essays from the revue's earlier run recover Calder's relationship with the founding publisher Christian Zervos, alongside photographs by Ugo Mulas and Agnès Varda and an interview by Joan Simon. A second half attends to the fifty artists who have since worked in the Saché studio, with interviews with Tadashi Kawamata, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Rachel Harrison and a portfolio of sculpture models by the 2014 resident Monika Sosnowska.

Calder (1898–1976) invented the mobile inside the Paris avant-garde of the late 1920s, and France remained his second working base for the rest of his life. Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Anya Bondell, with an introduction by the artist's grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, the issue runs 194 pages with 143 color plates in the revue's large format; a limited edition adds a signed work by Darren Bader.