Sculptor, photographer, and master of artistic staging, rival to Auguste Rodin and a role model for numerous artists, the Italian-French artist Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) revolutionized sculpture. Although exceptionally influential, his oeuvre remains too little known today.
Featuring around fifty of his sculptures and two hundred and fifty photographs and drawings, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to discover Rosso’s oeuvre in a comprehensive retrospective. It invites to learn more about his pioneering activities in turn-of-the-century Milan and Paris as well as the significance of his art in a contemporary perspective, while at the same time providing the basis for a new investigation of the history of modern sculpture.
The extraordinary and lasting impact of his œuvre is revealed by encounters with works by over sixty artists from the past one hundred years including Lynda Benglis, Constantin Brâncuși, Edgar Degas, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Meret Oppenheim, Auguste Rodin, and Alina Szapocznikow.
MEDARDO ROSSO. INVENTING MODERN SCULPTURE
MARCH 29–AUGUST 10, 2025
KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL | BASEL, SWITZERLAND
On the cover: Medardo Rosso, Malato all' ospedale, 1889
Plaster, 23.5 x 30.5 x 28 cm
Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio
Photo Credit: mumok / Markus Wörgötter
Source: Show On Show
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