Antony Gormley: Critical Mass Exhibition at The Musée Rodin

This autumn, The Musée Rodin welcomes British artist Antony Gormley. For over forty years, Gormley has explored the relationship of the human body to space through a critical engagement with his own body and, more recently, through examining the relationship of the body to the built environment. Titled Critical Mass, this exhibition at The Musée Rodin will activate all areas of the museum, including the temporary exhibition space, gardens, Marble Galerie and Hotel Biron. Key works from across Gormley’s career will enter into dialogue with Rodin’s own sculptures, inviting visitors to reflect on the two sculptors and their shared investment in asking what the body offers sculpture as a subject, object and reflexive tool.

On the exhibition, Gormley has said: ‘The reason that Rodin remains a key source of inspiration and renewal for sculpture is the way that he liberated it by combining ancient and modern methods and materials in an extraordinarily prescient way. Through open experimentation, the originator of modern sculpture took full advantage of the freedom to experiment, armed with all the means of an emergent industrial age and its ability to mechanically produce in profusion. I consider Critical Mass II to be the most concentrated example of my attempt to reanimate and re-purpose the power of the body in the art of sculpture.’