SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us

    News and Articles on Medardo Rosso



    Sculpture: Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical  Oct 15, 2004
    Artists: Lynda Benglis, Alighiero Boetti, Thomas Demand, Tom Claassen, Keith Edmier, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Giuseppe Gabellone, Isa Genzken, Matt King, Martin Kippenberger, Takehito Koganezawa, Tetsumi Kudo, Sarah Lucas, Mark Manders, David Moises, Richard Prince, Jason Reppert, Medardo Rosso, Thomas Schtte, Peter Senoner, Erik Steinbrecher, Yoshihiro Suda, Rebecca Warren, Franz West, Bill Woodrow, Erwin Wurm. IMAGEPeter SenonerLEM oplatanus", 2004,photo: Silja Addy, Courtesy... (AbsoluteArts.com)

    A changing of the guard at art museums  Dec 27, 2003
    Harvard's "Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions" is a case in point. A collaboration between curators, led by Harry Cooper and a conservation team headed by Henry Lie, it used connoisseurship and science to resurrect the reputation of the Italian sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Boston Globe, MA)

    The impressionist who wasn't  Dec 24, 2003
    Instead of pigeonholing Degas with the Impressionists, she looks at his work in relation to that of his Italian contemporaries Giuseppe de Nittis, Frederico Zandomeneghi, Medardo Rosso and Giovanni Boldini. In the case of the sculptor Medardo Rosso, there are real and close affinities between the blurred, soft, melting forms in the symbolist portrait called Ecce Puer and in similar portrait busts by Degas (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)

    Dallas fetes opening of sculpture center  Oct 24, 2003
    Inside the Piano pavilion are about 50 pieces, by Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti, Medardo Rosso and Max Ernst, among others. The center plans to mount shows from other sources, including a James Turrell exhibition with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (International Herald Tribune, France)




    Back to Art News

[ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ]
©1998-2007 SurfWax, Inc.
All rights reserved. Patents pending.



Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2007