07 May 2017

Medardo Rosso and the Flesh of Others


Io non lavoro per i miei contemporanei, lavoro per il futuro
(I don’t work for my contemporaries, I work for the future.)  
—Medardo Rosso

Received with thanks
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It's the continuum, stupid.
—FIAPCE

Mother matrix and the Unfinished Sympathy (sic)

from Willendorf to Leonardo and Michelangelo, 
Messerschmidt, Muybridge, Medardo Rosso
Giacometti, Fontana...


 Medardo Rosso, La vecchia (The Old Lady), 1883


 Medardo Rosso, Carne altrui (Flesh of Others), 1883–84
   

 Medardo Rosso, Aetas Aurea (The Golden Age), 1884-85


 Medardo Rosso, Enfant au sein (Child at the Breast), 1889–90

 Medardo Rosso, Rieuse (Laughing Woman) [first cast c.1890]
 with Rosso's own photography as animated in 2015 by 
 illustrator and graphic artist Jonathon Rosen
 

 Medardo Rosso, Madame X, 1896. Wax with plaster interior
 

 Medardo Rosso, Madame X regarded regarded, 1896- 
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail 
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
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