Hauser & Wirth Paris is opening 'Calder: François Premier' on Monday 19 October, described by the gallery as the first major project dedicated to the expansive postwar moment in 1953 and 1954 when Alexander Calder returned to live in France, settling in the small town of Saché in the Loire Valley.

The presentation takes as its focus Calder's reconnection with France in the early 1950s, a period that reshaped his work and life. Alongside the exhibition itself, the gallery is screening a film that follows this chapter of Calder's life through the photographs of Agnès Varda, in conversations with the filmmaker's daughter Rosalie Varda and the artist's grandson Alexander S. C. Rower.

The opening also situates the gallery within a busy Parisian autumn: Hauser & Wirth is concurrently presenting at Art Basel Paris, and its artists' works are on view in museum shows across Paris and beyond, from Jenny Holzer and Louise Bourgeois to William Kentridge and Cindy Sherman.

'Calder: François Premier' is on view at Hauser & Wirth Paris.