Two unmatched masters of Western sculpture converse across the centuries: Michelangelo and Rodin. Their works, embodying the strength of the body and the depth of the soul, meet in an unprecedented confrontation revealing both continuities and ruptures.
Organized into five sections – Two Mythical Artists; Nature and Antiquity: Reinventing the Model; Non finito; Body and Soul; Energy and Life – the exhibition brings together marbles, bronzes, plasters, terracottas, casts, and a very rich graphic production. The tour highlights the formal and conceptual issues that lead to a shared ambition: making visible the inner energy of the body. The body appears as the envelope and skin of the soul, living matter subject to time and gesture. The tour also questions the legacy of these gestures: how did the rewriting of the antique and the use of bodies prepare the ruptures of the 20th century? By showing filiations, borrowings, and subversions, the exhibition offers a sensitive reading of the myths of the two geniuses and invites us to rethink sculpture not as an element that "forms shape" but as a laboratory of artistic innovations.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: Musée du Louvre / Nicolas Bousser