A brand new exhibition on the Bourdelle Museum very near our lodges focuses on the similitudes, homages and variations between sculptors Bourdelle and Rodin via 160 reveals, 60 of which have been lent specifically by the Rodin Museum (additionally near our lodges!)
Antoine Bourdelle’s admiration for Auguste Rodin, who was 20 years older than him, is nicely documented. Certainly, the previous labored for the latter for fifteen years, pre-cutting his marble, and the 2 males exchanged each sculptures and drawings.
For this primary large-scale exhibition on the topic, you’ll uncover the admiration and antagonism of their relationship, with a presentation designed very like a six-dish tasting menu:
— Part 1 | The sould of the fabric
— Interlude | Rodin and Bourdelle the collectors – elective affinities
—Part 2 | The aesthetics of fragments
— Part 3 | The monument(al)
— Part 4 | Metamorphoses and hybridisations
— Epilogue | Strolling males – an exploration of the upright human determine within the work of Bourdelle, Rodin, Matisse, Brancusi, Zadkine, Giacometti…
Along with the 60 works loaned by the Rodin Museum, the exhibition has necessary loans from the Pompidou Centre, the Petit Palais, the Musée d’Orsay, Balzac’s home and the High-quality Artwork museums of Paris, Lyon and Rouen, to say just a few.
Firstly of the exhibition you’ll discover animated graphics that inform of the 2 artists’ shared historical past, adopted by an interactive, tactile, narrative recreation unfold over the primary half of the occasion, wherein you’ll be charged with chiseling a bust in the identical means Bourdelle did for Rodin over the course of fifteen years.
And particular care has been taken with youngster guests. There are 13 data factors for works positioned decrease, forming a path they name “Preserve an eye fixed out”.
Linked with the exhibition there are:
— guided visits, one in every of which is in French signal language and one other theatrically staged with actress Natalie Hanrion of the Compagnie In Cauda,
— an inaugural convention with the scientific curators of the exhibition Jérôme Godeau and Colin Lemoine,
— an evening of readings on twenty third January 2025,
— a number of sculpture workshops…
A list of the exhibition (272 pages, round 42€) can be accessible right here out of your native Amazon.
The exhibition Rodin / Bourdelle – Corps à corps (Physique to Physique) is on the Bourdelle Museum (right here) till 2nd February 2025
Open on daily basis besides Mondays from 10am-6pm
Closed twenty fifth December & 1st January
Admission: 10€ / 8€
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