The artist and his eccentricities is a notorious coupling. It could even be said that peculiar habits are an essential element to the creative pursuit –by breaking with societal norms, the artist realises their own autonomy, and as such is able to make art that is utterly unique. Take Alexander Calder, for instance, pioneer of the now universal ‘mobile’, whose kinetic art – achieved through lengthy experimentation with concepts of weightlessness and gravity – is a curious balance of movable…
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