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September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022 | Sculpture Garden, Main Street Sculpture

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile | Outdoor Installation

After the Mobile is a two-part solo exhibition by artist Tim Prentice (b. 1930), known for his innovative work in the field of motion in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition since 1999. The exhibition will feature twenty indoor works, six outdoor works, and a video portrait of the artist, presented both in the Museum’s galleries and Sculpture Garden, with the indoor exhibition on view from March 29 to October 4, 2021, and the outdoor installation on view from September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022.

Installation Images

Mobile sculptures with yellow dangling pieces hung in trees by two picnic tables.
Silver rectangular kinetic sculpture installed over the entrance to The Aldrich Museum.
Close up shot of mobile hung in tree with yellow dangling pieces.
Tall steel pole with a kinetic sculpture on top.
Close up image of kinetic sculpture set against the sky on top of a steel pole.
Vertically oriented rectangular kinetic sculpture in the Museum's Sculpture Garden.
Silvery kinetic sculpture installed on a hanging pole in the Museum's Sculpture Garden.
Open square silvery kinetic sculpture installed low to the grass.

Audio

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile Audio Tour

Links

Press Release

Press

“So amid all the meticulous pre-planning and control, who, ultimately, gets to play? ‘That’s a critical question’, says Prentice. ‘Chance is left up to the wind. We just make toys for the wind to play with, and hope that the wind is curious enough.’”
—Wallpaper*

Funders

Generous support for Tim Prentice: After the Mobile is provided by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Pam and Jack Baker, and Anita and Nick Donofrio.

Generous support for The Aldrich Sculpture Garden is provided by The Leir Foundation.

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Tim Prentice: After the Mobile

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Blue wall in foreground with a silver material and wire sculpture. Two other suspended sculptures in background.
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Tim Prentice: After the Mobile

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Tim Prentice: Changing the Movement of Kinetic Art, Wallpaper*

Alongside Alexander Calder and George Rickey, Tim Prentice forged a new path in kinetic art. We spoke to the American nonagenarian artist and architect ahead of his major two-part exhibition, ‘After the Mobile’, at the Aldrich, Connecticut.

Gallery with one wall painted red and three suspended reflective material and wire sculptures.
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Top image: Tim Prentice, Yellow Zingers, 2021. Tim Prentice: After the Mobile | Outdoor Installation (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022. Courtesy of Tim Prentice. Photo: Jason Mandella