Genuine Rodin works carve out a new museum on city art map
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I see the whole truth and not just the surface truth, I accentuate the lines that best express the spiritual stage I interpret,” Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) once said.
Featuring more than 100 authentic artworks by the French sculptor, including sculptures, paintings and ceramics, a permanent exhibition “Rodin: A Hinge Figure toward Modernity” is on show at Centre d’Art Rodin in Shanghai, a newly opened outpost of Paris-based Musée Rodin, or Rodin Museum.
Transformed from the former French Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Centre d’Art Rodin is located in the Shanghai Expo Culture Park by Huangpu River in the Pudong New Area, covering a main exhibition area of 4,200 square meters.
The exhibition consists of six main chapters and two special chapters. The exhibits include national treasures from the Rodin Museum, such as “The Thinker,” “The Age of Bronze,” “Eve,” “Balzac” and “The Burghers of Calais.” The original editions of these works are presented in Shanghai for the first time.
One of the highlights is “The Age of Bronze,” Rodin’s earliest surviving life-size sculpture.
The sculpture was created while he was living in Brussels. It was completed after his return from a trip to Italy, where he was exposed to the work of Michelangelo. The sensitive and vibrant modeling of the statue, which a young Belgian soldier posed for, was the result of a close study of all the profiles of the model.
The exhibition tries to chronicle Rodin’s alteration in his art styles.
With his relentless pursuit of truth and nature and his pioneering creative expression and sculptural language, Rodin accomplished the transcendence of the classical tradition and opened up a new direction for the development of modern sculpture. As a result, he is regarded as the “father of modern sculpture.”
Rodin loved and excelled in tragic themes such as “The Gates of Hell,” the most ambitious work of his life, which is also on show.
In 1880, Rodin was asked to design a bronze gate for the future Museum of Decorative Arts (a plan for the museum that never came to fruition), which was inspired by the “Divine Comedy,” especially its inferno, by the Florentine poet Dante (1265-1321).
Rodin passionately devoted nearly 10 years to the project. He waited until 1900 to show it at the Pavilion of the Alma in Paris.
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