MEMBERS ONLY: PRIVATE TOUR OF MEDARDO ROSSO TEN BRONZES AT PETER FREEMAN, INC.

 

April 29, 2016

CIMA members are cordially invited for a private after hours visit to see the new Medardo Rosso exhibition, Ten Bronzes, at Peter Freeman, Inc. We will be accompanied by Peter Freeman and Amedeo Porro, co-organizers of the exhibition, and Danila Rosso Marsure, great-granddaughter of the artist. Rosso expert Sharon Hecker, author of a forthcoming biography on the artist, will give an introduction to Rosso and his work in bronze.

Rosso unlike most of his contemporaries, mostly cast his own bronzes. No two casts are the same, indeed no two casts were meant to be the same. The ten works included in this show span Rosso’s entire career. Between 1882 and 1906, Rosso produced around 35 sculptural subjects; Sagrestano and La Ruffiana are among the first, both from his early Milan period, and Ecce Puer was his last subject (a plaster version of this subject was on view at CIMA last year)—all three of these works are represented in this exhibition, as are two significant casts of the same subject, Malato all’ospedale (1889). There are also two subjects which belong to the least known part of Rosso’s work, his copies from antique and renaissance sculpture, San Francesco and Niccolò da Uzzano, both of these quite faithful renderings after Donatello.

Medardo Rosso was the subject of CIMA’s second season. To explore more on the artist, check out the videos produced by our fellows last year!