RODIN. The light of the ancient. Exhibition catalog.

Summary
Rodin wanted to anchor his practice of sculpture in the continuity of founding 
Greek art, sometimes revisited through the filters of Roman and Renaissance 
copies. Reformulating the archetypes of Antiquity, going so far as to integrate
 his own figurines by assembly into a Greek vase, a column, an urn..., his art 
echoes, through the plastic perfection and the expressiveness of his forms, 
to the Greek ideal. The masterpieces of Antiquity, which have reached our
 time most often in the form of fragments, mutilated sculptures, also find a 
formal parallel in Rodin's very way of working: removing the superfluous to 
give his works a raw, essential power, mutilating his statues, he used 
assembly, fragments, recomposition, the unfinished. Rodin never went to 
Greece, but collected some 2,500 Greek works or replicas, in a sort of 
Pantheon, his own museum. But this is undoubtedly a dream Greece, 
allowing breakthroughs into the invisible, the inaccessible, the unspeakable.

Dimensions
22.5 x 28.5 x 3.5 cm