Rodin facing Bourdelle: an unprecedented sculptural confrontation at the Montauban museum
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Two exhibitions, two atmospheres. Until October 19, 2025, the Ingres Bourdelle museum of Montauban , installed in the walls of the old episcopal palace built in the second half of the 17th century, offers visitors Two temporary exhibitions and exceptional . One is devoted to the emblematic artist of the 19th century Rodin , whose relationship with Bourdelle deserved a large exhibition, and the other allows the Toulouse collective urban art Mister Freeze to carry out a collective and evolutionary work.
Rodin and Bourdelle find themselves at the Ingres Bourdelle museum
" The confrontation of these two sculptors, each of them had never been Organized ".
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For the first time, a large-scale temporary exhibition is devoted to intense links between Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). " We have developed a program that revolves around Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the painter of the 19th century and Antoine Bourdelle, this great sculptor born in Montauban. However, his relationship with Rodin, although known, had never been studied in such a precise and historical way. ", reveals the conservative in chief heritage and director of the Ingres museum Bourdelle.
Visitors will be able to dive into the heart of their relationships .
" How did the two artists meet? How did their link evolve? Was it a simple friendship? Did she resist time? Does it appear in their respective works? ".
an exhibition to put Bourdelle in his place which brought (or distant) these two artists , but also " to rehabilitate Bourdelle and him (re) giving the place he finally had at the beginning of the 20th century, especially after the death of Rodin, that is to say that of the greatest French sculptor ", indicates Florence Viguier-Dutheil Touloustope .
because, we must not forget that Antoine Bourdelle exhibited his works all over the planet . " Everyone knows the names of Augustin Rodin and Camille Claudel and they both overshadowed all the sculptors who lived around, including Bourdelle." , recalls the latter.
More than 170 works of Bourdelle and Rodin intertwined
as part of this cultural event to be discovered until October 19, 170 Works (sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and archives) Bourdelle and Rodin respond in a dialogue confrontation.
historical works which mainly come from Parisian collections: from the Rodin museum and from the Bourdelle museum, but also from the Musée d'Orsay, the Petit Palais and other establishments.
in order to make art accessible to all audiences, the museum Ingres Bourdelle Loading A free name book available to reception and which allows you to visit the family exhibition by arousing observation, questioning, creation, or even interactivity.
without forgetting, throughout the course, the three digital, fun and interactive mediation terminals , which make it possible to better understand the techniques of sculpture Rensions of their epistolary exchanges and to discover their life and their works in images.
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This exhibition is accompanied a rich and varied cultural program for all ages : guided tours from July 5 to September 17; shows and meetings; And creative workshops are actually on the program.
The route indeed concludes " by a little corner of workshops where visitors are invited, of all ages, to give their own version of what a work of Rodin or Bourdelle is ", says Florence Viguier-Dutheil. Class = "Title"> When the Mister Freeze collective takes place (also) of the places
Since its reopening, the Ingres Bourdelle museum offers contemporary artists to invest the second subsoil of the old episcopal palace. This year, the premises are therefore entrusted to the Toulouse collective born in 2013, Mister Freeze .
baptized the interior odyssey, this project therefore brings together a large network of artists and cultural actors in the current urban art scene. In turn and over the months and until October, the latter follow one another and each must make a double page of a monumental book, the main element of This collective work installed in the legendary Salle du Prince Noir .
Each turned page will be the occasion of a new meeting with the public, Workshops, performances ... inviting the curious to follow the transformations of the story told, that of a child, adult in the making, symbolic figure embodying the quest and the mutation.
Six strong times mark this artistic and evolving installation , which started on May 7 thanks to May 7 This collective, which works for the promotion and dissemination of contemporary and urban art:
-Wednesday May 7: Preamble / Opening of the exhibition. - Saturday May 17 from 7 p.m. to midnight: Chapter 1 - Marie & Amp; Clément, " should not grow "; - Thursday June 12 from 6.30 p.m. - Chapter 2 - Cédric Lascours Reso, " erased instincts "; - Saturday 19 July from 3 pm: Chapter 3 - Julia Forma, " in the sweetness of your pages "; - Tank & amp; Popek, " talk about battles, princes and elephants "; -Saturday October 18 from 3 pm: epilogue/closing evening in partnership with clutch.
Hours: span> May-September: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday/October-April: Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends
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Antoine Bourdelle, the poet or the day and the night, 1901. Marble. Paris, Bourdelle museum span> © CC0 Paris Musées/Bourdelle museum
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