Medardo Rosso - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8434308266 ISBN 13: 9788434308268

Publisher: Ediciones Pol�grafa, 1997

Medardo Rosso sustained a concept of sculpture related to the idea of the suspended instant and of apparition, which in the last instance denoted immateriality and timelessness. This implied an alliance with surrounding matter and an inevitable tendency towards its dissolution in light energy. This does not mean, however, that he denied sculpture its material entity, on the contrary, he recognised the quality of matter as the crucible for all forms rather than its subordination to a kind of formal solidification of fiction. He therefore championed a kind of sculpture which, having an immaterial bias, was more visual than tactile and with regard to which the observer's point of view was an essential aspect.

The fact that his fame and universality are recognised only in relatively reduced circles is the best evidence of the fact that what began as a kind of conspiracy to silence his unquestionable worth with very immediate objectives in mind has resulted in a grave omission from the history of art, repeated ad nauseam with the utmost triteness.

Gloria Moure, currently director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, offers a comprehensive view of the work of Medardo Rosso. Besides an abundance of visual information, including most of Rosso's own photographs, hitherto unpublished, the book features interesting theoretical contributions from Francisco Calvo Serraller, Luciano Caramel and Gloria Moure herself, accompanied by a manifesto by Boccioni which constitutes an unequivocal statement of the sculptor's worth, echoed in the texts by present-day sculptors such as Giovanni Anselmo, Tony Cragg, Luciano Fabro, Juan Mu�oz and Thomas Sch�tte, alongside a careful selection of articles and letters by the artist which brings us into his way of understanding his art or, which amounts to the same thing, his life.

232 full-colour illustrations

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From the Publisher:

This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum (July 19 to October 26, 2003); the St. Louis Art Museum (November 21, 2003 to February 29, 2004); and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (April 3 to June 20, 2004). Published in association with the Harvard University Art Museums

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Medardo Rosso
Gloria Moure

Medardo Rosso sustained a concept of sculpture related to the idea of the suspended instant and of apparition, which in the last instance denoted immateriality and timelessness. This implied an alliance with surrounding matter and an inevitable tendency towards its dissolution in light energy. This does not mean, however, that he denied sculpture its material entity, on the contrary, he recognised the quality of matter as the crucible for all forms rather than its subordination to a kind of formal solidification of fiction. He therefore championed a kind of sculpture which, having an immaterial bias, was more visual than tactile and with regard to which the observer's point of view was an essential aspect.

The fact that his fame and universality are recognised only in relatively reduced circles is the best evidence of the fact that what began as a kind of conspiracy to silence his unquestionable worth with very immediate objectives in mind has resulted in a grave omission from the history of art, repeated ad nauseam with the utmost triteness.

Gloria Moure, currently director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, offers a comprehensive view of the work of Medardo Rosso. Besides an abundance of visual information, including most of Rosso's own photographs, hitherto unpublished, the book features interesting theoretical contributions from Francisco Calvo Serraller, Luciano Caramel and Gloria Moure herself, accompanied by a manifesto by Boccioni which constitutes an unequivocal statement of the sculptor's worth, echoed in the texts by present-day sculptors such as Giovanni Anselmo, Tony Cragg, Luciano Fabro, Juan Mu�oz and Thomas Sch�tte, alongside a careful selection of articles and letters by the artist which brings us into his way of understanding his art or, which amounts to the same thing, his life.

232 full-colour illustrations

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