The "mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig" in Vienna, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute present, until 23 February 2025, the exhibition "Medardo Rosso. The invention of modern sculpture'.
Artist and craftsman, art theorist and forerunner of the practice of installations, master of public staging and rival of Auguste Rodin, Medardo Rosso (Turin 1858 - Milan 1928) was one of the pioneers of modernity.
The mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - is devoting an extensive retrospective to the work of the hitherto little-known French-Italian artist, with around 50 sculptures and a rich selection of photographs, photo collages and drawings, thus linking up with the museum's own early collections.
The exhibition is introduced by a meticulous analysis of Rosso's procedural and repetitive approach, which departed from all conventions of traditional sculpture. Rosso's pioneering and hermetic work is then also presented through a dialogue with a selection of works by other artists - including Jean-Siméon Chardin, Edgar Degas, Constantin Brâncuși, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, Marisa Merz and Phyllida Barlow - who directly or indirectly resonated with Rosso.
The exhibition, curated by Heike Eipeldauer, is being realised in close collaboration with the artist's heirs and will subsequently be shown at the Kunstmuseum Basel from March to August 2025.
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