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The major retrospective dedicated to Aristide Maillol, which was held successively at the Musée d'Orsay and the Kunsthaus in Zurich, ends its tour at La Piscine de Roubaix from February 25 to May 28, 2023.February 23, 2023
Exhibition view "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) : La quête de l’harmonie" with "La Montagne", 1937, stone, 176 x 185 x 78 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon © Alain Leprince Maillol creates masses and constructs his compositions, guided by the infinite possibilities of nature, with a keen sense of synthesis and environment. He abandons the subject, the accident, in favor of the essence. Aiming for a timelessness rooted in a kind of archaic universality, his work is foreign to the history of the avant-garde, but fully relevant to the history of modernity. This retrospective underscore Maillol's role in the panorama of sculpture in the first half of the 20th century: in the face of Rodin's expressionism, he embodies the values of clarity and balance of form that make him the culmination of the great classical tradition.
Exhibition view "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) : La quête de l’harmonie", musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent – La Piscine – © Alain Leprince
Exhibition view "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) : La quête de l’harmonie" à la Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent © Alain Leprince
Exhibition view "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) : La quête de l’harmonie" with "La Montagne", 1937, stone, 176 x 185 x 78 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon © Alain Leprince The major retrospective dedicated to Aristide Maillol, which was held successively at the Musée d'Orsay and the Kunsthaus in Zurich, ends its tour at La Piscine de Roubaix from February 25 to May 28, 2023.
Maillol creates masses and constructs his compositions, guided by the infinite possibilities of nature, with a keen sense of synthesis and environment. He abandons the subject, the accident, in favor of the essence. Aiming for a timelessness rooted in a kind of archaic universality, his work is foreign to the history of the avant-garde, but fully relevant to the history of modernity. This retrospective underscore Maillol's role in the panorama of sculpture in the first half of the 20th century: in the face of Rodin's expressionism, he embodies the values of clarity and balance of form that make him the culmination of the great classical tradition.
Exhibition view "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) : La quête de l’harmonie" à la Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent © Alain Leprince
