“Red Mobile” is a kinetic sculpture created by artist Alexander Calder in 1956. As a work of Kinetic Art, it exemplifies the movement’s preoccupation with incorporating motion into the artistic experience. This mobile, typical of Calder’s pioneering genre, combines fluidity, balance, and color through its suspended components.
The artwork in question features a series of red, abstract-shaped elements that are delicately balanced and arranged along a series of metal rods. These rods are connected in such a way that allows the red elements to move in the air, responding to air currents or other movements around them. The stark red shapes vary slightly in size and form but generally have a biomorphic quality, evoking natural forms while being distinctly geometric. The simplicity of the color palette—employing a bold red against the void it inhabits—emphasizes the artwork’s dynamism and the play of the shapes in space. This mobile is designed to interact with the space around it, inviting viewers to engage with the piece from different angles and to observe the changes that slight movements can provoke.
