Azabudai Hills Gallery (Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza A MBF) will host Calder: Un effet du
japonais--the artist' s first solo exhibition in Tokyo in nearly 35 years and his largest ever in Japan--from Thursday, May 30, 2024 to Friday, September 6, 2024.

Curated by Alexander S. C. Rower, President of the Calder Foundation, New York, and organized in collaboration with Pace Gallery, Calder: Un effet du japonais will explore the enduring resonance of the American modernist' s art with Japanese traditions and aesthetics. It will comprise approximately 100 works from the collection of the Calder Foundation that span the 1920s to the 1970s, from signature mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles to oil paintings and works on paper. While Calder never traveled to Japan himself, he was embraced by many of the country's artists and poets during his lifetime. Today, more than two dozen of his works can be found in 18 museums across Japan.

Calder: Un effet du japonais is organized as part of a new curatorial partnership between Azabudai Hills Gallery and Pace Gallery, which will officially open a permanent space in September 2024 in Tokyo's Azabudai Hills, with special previews from July. Pace has worked closely with the Calder Estate since 1984 and has presented 17 solo and dual-artist exhibitions of Calder's work at its locations around the world. Calder: Un effet du japonais is the eighteenth Calder exhibition that Pace has organized.