In Rome a monographic exhibition on Medardo Rosso and his relationship with the ancient, at Palazzo Altemps

From October 9, 2019 to February 2, 2020, the Museo Nazionale Romano at Palazzo Altemps opens its doors an exhibition dedicated to Medardo Rosso ( Turin, 1858 - Milan, 1928), entitled simply Medardo Rosso.

The exhibition is intended to be an opportunity for a broad reflection on sculpture, which will be able to take advantage of the juxtaposition of Medardo’s works with some of the greatest masterpieces of classicism housed in the Museum of Palazzo Altemps, in a path of reading of the artist’s repertoire and modernity made therefore even more stimulating and unprecedented.

The exhibition, in the rooms on the second floor, does not provide a chronological but a thematic path, through some of the artist’s treated subjects of which different versions will be presented, in a choice determined by reasons not only iconographic, but above all compositional and technical: Rosso’s extraordinary originality in experimenting with absolutely unprecedented uses of materials and the consequent variety of material rendering will be returned through the selection of works in wax, plaster and bronze, the materials congenial to him in the rendering of what he himself called “fugitive space of the fraction of a second.”

Rosso’s photographs will also be on display. In fact, starting especially from the end of the nineteenth century, photography took on for Rosso the sense of an autonomous and accomplished research, an integral and irreplaceable part of an incessant work of shooting a few, essential images, which has, not coincidentally, an equivalent in that continuous reworking of the sculptures he conceived within the early years of the twentieth century that characterizes the last decades of his career. Photography was for Rosso an occasion for a study of matter and light, now disengaged from confrontation with the real.

The exhibition’s itinerary also intends to offer an opportunity for dialogue with antiquity, including within these extraordinary environments some evidence of Rosso’s relationship with the ancient, not yet properly investigated in the exhibition.

For all information you can visit the official website of the National Roman Museum.

Pictured: Medardo Rosso, Paris 1890, self-portrait in the studio

Source: press release

In Rome a monographic exhibition on Medardo Rosso and his relationship with the ancient, at Palazzo Altemps

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