Michel-Ange Rodin - Corps vivants

Two unequalled masters of Western sculpture—Michelangelo and Rodin—enter into a dialogue across the centuries. Their works, which embody the force of the body and the depth of the soul, meet in an unprecedented confrontation in which both continuities and breaks are revealed.

Organized into five sections – Two Mythic Artists; Nature and Antiquity: Reinventing the Model; Non finito; Body and Soul; Energy and Life – the exhibition brings together marbles, bronzes, plasters, terracottas, casts and a very rich body of graphic work. The itinerary emphasizes the formal and conceptual issues that lead to a shared ambition: to make visible the inner energy of the body.

The body appears as the envelope and skin of the soul, living matter subject to time and gesture. The presentation also examines the legacy of these gestures: how did the rewriting of the antique and the use of bodies prepare the ruptures of the 20th century? By showing lineages, borrowings and appropriations, the exhibition offers a sensitive reading of the myths of the two geniuses and invites us to rethink sculpture not as something that merely "gives form" but as a laboratory of artistic innovation.