Auguste Rodin | L'Addio, 1898

L'Addio (L'Adieu / The Farewell) è una celebre scultura realizzata da Auguste Rodin nel 1898.

L'opera è profondamente legata alla tormentata e dolorosa storia d'amore tra Rodin e l'artista Camille Claudel.

Per la composizione del volto, infatti, lo scultore ha riutilizzato un calco della testa di Camille con i capelli corti (risalente al 1884), aggiungendo davanti al viso due mani indipendenti e giunte, che evocano un senso di separazione, malinconia ed, appunto, un ultimo addio.

Auguste Rodin | L'Adieu /Farewell, 1898 | Musée Rodin, Paris

Ernst Barlach, lo scultore censurato dai nazisti

Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) è stato uno dei più importanti scultori, grafici e scrittori Tedesci, appartenente al movimento Espressionista.

Barlach nacque a Wedel nella Germania settentrionale, il più anziano di quattro figli della coppia formata da Johanna Luise Barlach e dal dottore Georg Barlach.

Frequentò i primi corsi di studio a Ratzeburg.

Restò orfano di padre durante questo periodo, nel 1884.

Antoine Jossé, 1970 | Surrealist sculptor

Antoine Josse is a French artist, born in 1970.

His paintings and sculptures express an irrepressible desire for lightness, escapism and to be able to dream the impossible.

The use of captivating and revealing motifs, along with the presence of human beings immersed in a dream-like landscape, convey a unique charm to his work.

His paintings are alluring for their atmosphere, evocative colours, and tumultuous skies.

The minuscule beings are settled in a desolated and dangerous world where the vegetation rapidly spreads, bringing to life dramatic reds, blues and greens, creating spectacular yet enigmatic feelings.

Love Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel, 1886

"My ferocious friend".... "Mia feroce amica"...

Thus begins Rodin’s desperate cry of love to Camille Claudel in the early years of their relationship.

Rodin was soon captivated by this pupil who became his assistant, mistress and muse, while Claudel outwardly remained in complete control of her feelings.

Consumed and tormented by an obsessive love, he implores her - “on his knees” - to ease his suffering from beginning to end of this letter, written in a muddled style, with erroneous syntax and imperfect spelling.

Rainer Maria Rilke / Rodin | Love Song, 1907

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch

It with your own? How shall I ever place

It clear of you on anything beyond?

Oh gladly I would stow it next to such

Things in the darkness as are never found

Down in an alien and silent space

That does not resonate when you resound.

Auguste Rodin - Fugit Amor, 1881

Eva Antonini, 1961 | Figurative sculptor

Eva Antonini was born in Rapperswil-Switzerland, the place of her childhood and adolescence.

As a young girl, Eva reveals a natural proneness for molding clay, matter that later will be privileged in the creation of sculptures of medium and large dimensions.

From 1981-1985 she lives in Geneva, where she takes her first steps in the working world, following her diverse and complex education: language studies; singing, music and dance; a horizon of journeys, stays in England, Italy and United States with stops in the Middle and Far East.

L'Arte Topiaria 🌿/ Topiary

L'Arte Topiaria, ars Topiaria in latino, o Hedge sculptur, nata all'epoca dell'Antica Roma, è una forma della Scultura Vegetale.

Consiste nel potare alberi ed arbusti al fine di dare loro una forma geometrica, diversa da quella naturalmente assunta dalla pianta, per scopi ornamentali.

Si formano così siepi formali, oppure partendo da esemplari singoli o piccoli gruppi, soggetti con varie forme, astratte oppure di animali, oggetti, persone.

Le piante vengono fatte crescere a volte con appositi supporti metallici per guidarle verso la forma definitiva.

Randolph Rogers | Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1859

"Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii" by Randolph Rogers (Waterloo, New York 1825-1892 Rome) was the most popular American sculpture of the nineteenth century.

According to Rogers, it was replicated 167 times in two sizes.

The subject was drawn from "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), a widely read novel by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which ends with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79.

Rogers’s evocative portrayal of Nydia highlights her heroic attempt to lead two companions out of the burning, ash-covered city.