La Provence – 10.7.17
Miramas: the brand village honours Rodin Monday 10/07/2017
The exhibition "Rodin and his contemporaries" is held until September 9
Michela Frattini and Edward Horswell are next to the bust of Victor Hugo by sculptor Rodin. PHOTO CH.L.
This is the first time that a centre of the McArthurGlen group hosts an exhibition of this level, says Michela Frattini, director of the Provence centre. The group's founder, JW Kaempfer Jr, is a passionate collector of art, particularly from the late 19th and early 20th century, when sculpture took a new impetus to change the view. On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin, he initiated this exhibition with works by Rodin and his contemporaries, founders of modern sculpture, "she explains. Edward Horswell, curator of this exhibition, strove to show the audience the energy, theatricality and emotion of Rodin, while highlighting his influence on the work of his contemporaries and followers.