Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture
Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin, Medardo Rosso (b. 1858 in Turin, d. 1928 in Milan) was one of the great pioneers of modernism. mumok is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the Italian-French artist鈥檚 still little-known oeuvre, which will feature about 铿乫ty sculptures and a large selection of photographs, photocollages, and drawings. The exhibition delves into a thorough analysis of Rosso's processual and repetitive and radical anti-heroic approach, with which the artist de铿乪d all conventions of traditional sculpture. A selection of works by artists directly or indirectly in铿倁enced by Rosso 鈥� such as Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Br芒ncu葯i, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Marisa Merz, Robert Morris and Andy Warhol 鈥� further unpack and create a dialogue with Rosso鈥檚 equally groundbreaking and hermetic work. The 鈥渆xpanded鈥� retrospective thus adheres to Rosso鈥檚 own artistic practice of not exhibiting alone but in 鈥渃onversation鈥� with others.
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Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin, Medardo Rosso (b. 1858 in Turin, d. 1928 in Milan) was one of the great pioneers of modernism. mumok is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the Italian-French artist鈥檚 still little-known oeuvre, which will feature about 铿乫ty sculptures and a large selection of photographs, photocollages, and drawings. The exhibition delves into a thorough analysis of Rosso's processual and repetitive and radical anti-heroic approach, with which the artist de铿乪d all conventions of traditional sculpture. A selection of works by artists directly or indirectly in铿倁enced by Rosso 鈥� such as Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Br芒ncu葯i, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Marisa Merz, Robert Morris and Andy Warhol 鈥� further unpack and create a dialogue with Rosso鈥檚 equally groundbreaking and hermetic work. The 鈥渆xpanded鈥� retrospective thus adheres to Rosso鈥檚 own artistic practice of not exhibiting alone but in 鈥渃onversation鈥� with others.
Artists on show
- Alberto Giacometti
- Alina Szapocznikow
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Andy Warhol
- Anton Giulio Bragaglia
- Auguste Rodin
- Carol Rama
- Constantin Brancusi
- David Hammons
- Edgar Degas
- Edward Steichen
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Erin Shirreff
- Eugène Carrière
- Eva Hesse
- Francis Bacon
- Georges Seurat
- Giovanni Anselmo
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Hannah Villiger
- Hans Josephsohn
- Honoré Daumier
- Isa Genzken
- James Welling
- Jasper Johns
- John Chamberlain
- Juan Muñoz
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Loie Fuller
- Louise Bourgeois
- Luciano Fabro
- Lynda Benglis
- Maria Lassnig
- Marisa Merz
- Matthijs Maris
- Medardo Rosso
- Nairy Baghramian
- Olga Balema
- Paul Thek
- Phyllida Barlow
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon
- Rebecca Warren
- Richard Serra
- Robert Gober
- Robert Morris
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Senga Nengudi
- Sherrie Levine
- Yayoi Kusama
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