''Teodelapio'' is the only monumental stabile sculpture in Italy by Alexander Calder. Situated in

Spoleto Spoleto (, also , , ; la, Spoletum) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is S. of Trevi, N. of Terni, SE of Perugia; SE of Florence; and N of Rome. History Spolet ...

it was designed and donated to the city for the 1962 edition of

Festival dei Due Mondi The ''Festival dei Due Mondi'' (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958. It features a vast array of conce ...

. It was part of the open-air exhibition "''Sculture in Città''" (Sculptures in the city) organized by Giovanni Carandente. The sculptor had a long correspondence with Carandente about ''how'' to make it and ''where'' to place it. Starting from the idea of realizing a ''mobile'', Calder chose to build a ''stabile''. The sculpture is made of black painted steel and takes its name from that of a lombard king. Located in front of Spoleto's train station, it has become a symbol of the city. The model was sent to the Italsider factory in Savona where it was magnified 27 times and built in 11 cm-thick steel used for hulls, then brought to Spoleto where it was assembled and welded together. Carandente about the origin of the name of the sculpture:

References

* Carandente, Giovanni 1996, ''Teodelapio, Alexander Calder'', Edizioni Charta, Milano 1996 1962 sculptures Sculptures by Alexander Calder

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