15 October Thursday 5.45 (for 6.00 pm) start to 7.30 pm
Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture Building
Bookings are not necessary and it is FREE
** Auguste Rodin **
Elizabeth Presa. Faculty of the VCA and Music
After failing to gain admittance to art school, Auguste Rodin worked for many years in obscurity. Yet by the turn of the 20th century Rodin dominated sculpture in FRance. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who worked as Rodin's secretary, offered unique insights into how the sculptor 'thinks' with his hands through complex dialectic that develops between touch and vision. These processes led Rodin to produce not only some of the most innovative interpretations of the human body in sculpture, but to an understanding of what sculpture can become. For many sculptors working now, Rilke's writing on
Rodin remains something of a 'secret bible'.
Elizabeth Presa is a sculptor and installation artist. She is the Head of The Centre for Ideas in the Faculty of the VCA and Music.
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