Alexander Calder
artist
American sculptor
The collaboration
The collaboration with Egidio begins on 20 February 1953, when Calder accepts the proposal, sent by letter, to make sculptures in glass together.
The first work is the Flying Dove, a wire sculpture by Calder that Egidio translates into glass. The following year comes the Fish: a fish-shaped metal tube holding, in columns, discs of coloured glass for the scales; the eye is a glass disc wrapped around a spiral.