Medardo Rosso

Sculptor, photographer and master of artistic staging, competitor of Auguste Rodin and role model for numerous artists: Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) revolutionized sculpture around 1900. Despite his great influence, the Italian-French artist is still little known today. This comprehensive retrospective in cooperation with the mumok in Vienna aims to change that. With almost fifty bronze, plaster and wax sculptures as well as hundreds of photographs and drawings, it makes Rosso's radical explorations of form, material and techniques tangible.

His sculptures, which turn away from monumentality and relate to the human scale, oscillate between presence and dissolution. In an attempt to capture changing light situations and perceptions, he created living surfaces - celebrated at the time as a sculptural version of Impressionism. He worked intensively with modern reproduction techniques and often used photography as a conceptual and sculptural tool. Inspired by Rosso's exhibition strategy, The Invention of Modern Sculpture also shows works by artists from the last hundred years whose themes and approaches are related to his.

Medardo Rosso with Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brâncuși, Miriam Cahn, Mary Cassatt, Giorgiode Chirico, Edgar Degas, Jean Dubuffet, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Gober, Félix González-Torres, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Maria Lassnig, Sherrie Levine, Marisa Merz, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, Auguste Rodin, Pamela Rosenkranz, Richard Serra, Georges Seurat, Kaari Upson, Hannah Villiger, Danh Võ, Andy Warhol, Rebecca Warren and others

Medardo Rosso - the invention of modern sculpture was created in close collaboration with the Medardo Rosso Estate and is a cooperation with the mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Wien.


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