Sculpture in motion: The heart of the artist’s studio

Abstract

The studio – the workshop – is not only the place in which artists create and produce the work, but also a specially controlled environment formed to show naturally their own artworks. In the exhibition, in a gallery or in a museum, they could be as paralysed. Artist hands are no more there to remember that this artwork is a part of a whole, or created with a movement. Inside the studio, the artist keep on making evolving and activating their work, even if it could seem to be finished. This text analyse three famous pieces of art: The Alexander Calder’s Circus (1926-31); Leda (1926) from Costantin Brancusi, and the Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913-1964). They are analysed from the point of view of their movement and staging in the context of their own place of production. They are three masterpieces that change their own meanings while moving inside the studio; a place that they also contribute to create.