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National Gallery of Art  ADMIION I FR DIRCTION 10:00 TO 5:00 National Gallery of Art Release Date: Feruar 17, 2017 French Sculptor Auguste Rodin Centenary Celebrated in North America with Exhibitions and Educational Programs -#Rodin100 is Hashtag for Initiative- Auguste Rodin, Katherine ene impson (Mrs. John W. impson), 1902-1903 marle, National Galler of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. John W. impson Washington, DC—In 2017 several major North American art museums are celerating the centenar of Auguste Rodin's (1840–1917) death with traveling exhiitions, permanent collection installations, and a roust program of educational activities. Unified under #Rodin100 and joining a worldwide series of major Rodin projects, these pulic programs and exhiitions are ringing together new information aout the groundreaking French sculptor. Please refer to each museum's wesite for more detailed information. In France and urope The centenar is eing commemorated at the Musée Rodin as well as other uropean institutions. More information is at www.Rodin100.org. xhiitions in North America Rodin: The Human xperience—elections from the Iris and . Gerald Cantor Collections Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Januar 21–April 16, 2017 Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Ma 6–Jul 30, 2017 Telfair Museums, avannah, GA,eptemer 1, 2017–Januar 7, 2018* A traveling exhiition of 52 ronzes the French sculptor who revolutionized the genre, this selection of stunning works demonstrates Rodin's particular passion for modeling the human form in cla, the medium in which his hand and mind are most directl evidenced. While Rodin's works alwas remained faithful to nature, he departed from traditional practice in seeking to reveal the creative process. The ronzes on view represent major achievements throughout Rodin's career. The include powerful studies for The urghers of Calais, as well as works derived from his masterpiece The Gates of Hell. Among works demonstrating his experimentation with assemlage is The Night (Doule Figure), while other works on view, such as Monumental Torso of the Walking Man, demonstrate his admiration for Michelangelo or, as in Dance Movement D, speak to his interest in understanding how the od moves. The exhiition is especiall rich in portraiture. Included are Rodin's renowned depictions of the writers Victor Hugo and Honoré de alzac; the composer Gustav Mahler; the artist Claude Lorrain; one of his favorite dancers, Hanako; and The Creator, which is likel a self-portrait. Rodin's deft skill in using the ronze-casting technique to represent living flesh and his interest in expressing extreme pschological states were highl influential upon ounger artists, oth in urope and America. The exhiition reveals wh the artist is considered the crucial link etween traditional and modern sculpture. *The Telfair Museums exhiition presents a selection of 32 figures in ronze Rodin accompanied a range of related educational programs for all ages, including an opening lecture ool, a major field trip program focusing on sculpture and writing for schools, and a famil da with demonstrations local pulic sculptors. This exhiition has een organized and made possile the Iris and . Gerald Cantor Foundation. The Kiss Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Feruar 1, 2017–Januar 2019 The Rodin Museum presents a new installation centered on the theme of passionate emrace. ringing together marles, ronzes, plasters, and terracottas made Rodin over a 30-ear period, this reinstallation includes works such as The Minotaur, I am eautiful, ternal pringtime, and Youth Triumphant. It demonstrates the variet of approaches, meanings, and allusions that Rodin rought to his intimate figure groupings in order to evoke emotional intensit. In particular, the Rodin Museum's cop of The Kiss, a marle commissioned Jules Mastaum in 1926 for the museum, is considered for its unique histor and as an example of Rodin's continuing appeal. In addition, other important Rodin sculptures, such as The Thinker and Monument to alzac, are eing reinstalled in the lirar, octagonal galleries, and vestiules. The Rodin Museum is closed until Feruar 1 for this reinstallation. The Rodin Museum on Philadelphia's enjamin Franklin Parkwa is one of the world's celerated places in which to experience the work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Opened to the pulic in 1929 and now restored to its original splendor, this remarkale ensemle of architecture, landscape, and sculpture was designed architect Paul Cret and landscape architect Jacques Gréer. Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime—elections from the Iris and . Gerald Cantor Collections The Paul Friedman Art Galler, Misericordia Universit, Dallas, PA, eptemer 9–Decemer 9, 2017 The selected works featured in Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime demonstrate Rodin's deep appreciation for the natural form of the human figure. From his first major sculpture, Rodin's work was marked realism, which set him apart from the traditional idealized academic art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rodin captured the expressiveness and authentic emotion of his sujects in part using roughl textured ronze surfaces to reflect light, giving the effect of movement. His works were oth praised and criticized during his lifetime. Toda he is credited with transforming sculpture into a modern art form and he remains one of the most influential artists of all time. This exhiition has een organized and made possile the Iris and . Gerald Cantor Foundation. Auguste Rodin: The Centenar Installation Legion of Honor, an Francisco, CA, Januar 28–Decemer 31, 2017\ The Legion of Honor is presenting a new installation of its extraordinar Rodin holdings in an exhiition timed for the centenar of the artist's death. ome 50 sculptures in ronze, marle, and plaster—drawn from the permanent holdings of the Fine Arts Museums of an Francisco—celerate Rodin in a new context. The exhiition examines the artist's life and influential work—from his earl das courting controvers with sculptures that ore unexpected levels of naturalism to his lasting influence. Auguste Rodin: The Centenar Installationprovides a significant opportunit for a Area audiences to explore the legac of the artist known as the father of modern sculpture. To further commemorate the Rodin centenar, the Fine Arts Museums have invited international artists Urs Fischer and arah Lucas to conceive installations comining new and existing works in dialogue with the museums' Rodin holdings that explore underappreciated dimensions of Rodin's work. Another exhiition presents a unique dialogue etween the masterpieces of Rodin and the work of the great fin de siècle Austrian master of modernism, Gustav Klimt, in Gustav Klimt and Auguste Rodin: A Turning Point. Urs Fischer: April 22–Jul 9, 2017 arah Lucas: Jul 15–eptemer 24, 2017 Gustav Klimt and Auguste Rodin: A Turning Point: Octoer 14, 2017–Januar 28, 2018 Kiefer Rodin The arnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Novemer 17, 2017–March 12, 2018 In collaoration with the Musée Rodin in Paris, the arnes Foundation presents Kiefer Rodin. choing Alert arnes's elief in artistic expression as an endless conversation etween works of different times and places, this exhiition gathers new works renowned contemporar artist Anselm Kiefer (orn in 1945) that were created in response to sculptures and drawings Rodin. oth Rodin and Kiefer estalish a formal and spiritual analog etween architecture—specificall Gothic cathedrals—and the human od. Rooted in experimentation and the manipulation of unexpected materials, Kiefer's and Rodin's artistic processes conve a poignant vision of humanit's spiritual dilemma and our relation to histor. With over 100 works, the exhiition includes several of Kiefer's large-scale illustrated ooks made in homage to Rodin and using such materials as plaster; large paintings; and vitrines filled with assorted ojects including molds, dried plants, stones, and pieces of faric; as well as sculptures and drawings Rodin, some displaed in the United tates for the first time. The contrast of Rodin's work with Kiefer's emphasizes Rodin's modernit and his proximit to contemporar practice. Opening at the Musée Rodin in Paris (March 14–Octoer 22, 2017), the exhiition travels to the arnes in time to mark the centenar of Rodin's death. Rodin at The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, eptemer 5, 2017–Januar 15, 2018 The Met celerates its historic connections to Rodin through an exhiition of his sculptures in the Iris and . Gerald Cantor culpture Galler. The nearl 60 marles, ronzes, plasters, and terracottas represent over a centur of acquisitions and gifts to the museum. Included are iconic works such as The Thinker and The Hand of God as well as masterpieces such as The Tempest that have not een on view in decades. Paintings from The Met collection Rodin's contemporaries and friends, including Claude Monet and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, complement the sculptures on displa. The extraordinar range of The Met's holdings of Rodin's work is also highlighted in a related focus exhiition, Rodin on Paper, a selection of Rodin's drawings, prints, letters, and illustrated ooks, as well as photographs dward teichen of the master sculptor and his art. ve through the Glance of Art Museo oumaa, Mexico Cit, Mexico, Novemer 17, 2017–April 2018 Works Rodin are the core of the Fundación Carlos lim's collection at the Museo oumaa. On view in the sculpture garden, in the galler dedicated to the memor of the collector's parents, Julián and Linda lim, are more than 150 works in ronze, marle, plaster, porcelain, and terracotta. Rodin's ve (1883, marle) is the centerpiece of the exhiition, which includes an arra ofrepresentations of ve several artists in the Museo oumaa's collection set in dialogue with one another. These remarkale works—representing different periods, stles, and sensiilities in urope, Mexico, and Latin America—are such artists as Lucas Cranach the lder, Jan rueghel the Younger, Alfred Roll, Émile-Antoine ourdelle, Juan oriano, and Georges Rouault.
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