Entrusted to art historian Valérie Da Costa, a specialist in modern and contemporary sculpture, the exhibition Maillol: Free Form shows how Maillol's work is part of a rethought history of sculpture of the XXth century.
The exhibition highlights as many notions that were at the heart of the sculptor's thought and gesture: variations on a motif, differences and repetitions, geometry and fragments of form as a whole.
The exhibition thus presents unpublished or rarely exhibited works: drawings, sculptures in terracotta and bronze, sketchbooks which reveal this sculptural modernity which irrigates Maillol's work and allows us to reread his work differently in the light of the challenges twentieth-century aesthetics.
An exhibition catalog has been published by the gallery, with texts by Valérie da Costa and Thierry Dufrêne, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Nanterre.