Joost Elffers

On the occasion of Alexander Calder: The Great Discovery at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (February 11 – May 28, 2012), the artist’s first retrospective to be held in the Netherlands since 1969, Alexander S.C. Rower sat down with publisher and designer Joost Elffers to talk about the aesthetic relationship between Calder and Mondrian.
Installation view, Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, Gemeentemuseum den Haag, 2012. From left to right: Mondrian's "Composition with Double Line and Blue," 1935; Calder's "Devil
Fish," 1937; and Mondrian's "Composition de lignes et couleur: III," 1937. Courtesy the Calder Foundation.

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