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Picasso-Rodin

February 9, 2021–March 6, 2022
Musée national Picasso–Paris and Musée Rodin, Paris
www.museepicassoparis.fr

Held simultaneously at two Parisian institutions, this exhibition offers a unique encounter between the works of Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin, two artists whose formal inventions marked a decisive turning point in modern art. Picasso-Rodin highlights unexpected convergences in their creative processes and explores their common practice of working serially and their shared taste for experimentation and ever-changing forms.

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Inferno

October 15, 2021–January 9, 2022
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
www.scuderiequirinale.it

This exhibition celebrates the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, and the 700th anniversary of his death by gathering together two hundred artworks that investigate modern interpretations of the infernal universe, its landscapes, and its inhabitants. Work by Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, and Auguste Rodin is included.

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Face à Arcimboldo

May 29–November 22, 2021
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Arcimboldo Face to Face, invites visitors to explore the timeless vocabulary of the sixteenth-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c. 1527–1593). The show demonstrates how his work has influenced art history for more than four centuries through the work of 130 artists, including work by Francis Bacon, Glenn Brown, Alex Israel, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Ed Ruscha.

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The Making of Rodin

May 18–November 21, 2021
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

This major exhibition is the first to focus on the importance of plaster in Auguste Rodin’s work. Although the artist is best known for his bronze and marble sculptures, he himself worked as a modeler who captured movement, light, and volume in pliable materials such as clay and plaster. Evoking the atmosphere of the artist’s studio, plaster casts in all sizes show how Rodin continually experimented with fragmentation, repetition, and joining existing parts in unconventional ways.

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Kiefer Rodin

November 17, 2017–March 12, 2018
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
www.barnesfoundation.org

For the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Anselm Kiefer is exhibiting recent paintings and sculptures in dialogue with master works by Rodin. Inspired by the debris and offcuts of Rodin’s sculptures—as well as by relics of his own life and other unusual materials—Kiefer’s recent work shares an instinctive originality with the French master’s oeuvre. The exhibition was co-organized by the Musée Rodin in Paris and has traveled from there.

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Kiefer Rodin

March 14–October 22, 2017
Musée Rodin, Paris
www.musee-rodin.fr

For the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Anselm Kiefer is exhibiting recent paintings and sculptures in dialogue with the museum’s collection. Inspired by the debris and offcuts of Rodin’s sculptures—combined with relics of his own life and other unusual materials—Kiefer’s recent work shares an instinctive originality with the French master’s oeuvre. The exhibition was co-organized by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and will be presented there this November.

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L’exposition du centenaire

March 22–July 31, 2017
Grand Palais, Paris
www.grandpalais.fr

This exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative universe, his relationship with his audience, and the way in which sculptors have appropriated his style. With over two hundred of Rodin’s works, this show also includes work by Georg Baselitz, Alberto Giacometti, Thomas Houseago, Pablo Picasso, and more.