{"id":60542,"date":"2023-07-18T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/camille-claudel-exhibition-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T21:27:14","slug":"camille-claudel-exhibition-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/camille-claudel-exhibition-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Claudel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trailblazing French sculptor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/9714\/camille-claudel\">Camille Claudel<\/a><\/strong> (1864\u20131943) defied the social expectations of her time to pursue original and powerful explorations of the human form.<\/p>\n<p>During that period, few women achieved celebrity in the field of sculpture, which, unlike painting or drawing, continued to be a largely male enterprise. Densely material, largely reliant on nude models, physically demanding, and bound up in male-dominated and politicized systems of state patronage, sculpture was not considered a polite art,\u00a0and Claudel\u2019s ambitions in that arena were transgressive. Her work prompted the critic Octave Mirbeau to famously exclaim, \u201cWe are in the presence of something unique, a revolt of nature: a woman genius.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claudel\u2019s biography\u2014her passionate and complicated relationship with her teacher, Auguste Rodin, and her forced confinement in a psychiatric institution for the final 30 years of her life\u2014is popularly known today, but her forward-thinking artworks have received less attention in the United States. This exhibition is the first comprehensive display of Claudel\u2019s work in the United States in over 20 years and marks the 130th anniversary of the first public presentation of her sculpture in this country\u2014at the 1893 World\u2019s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Featuring some 60 sculptures from more than 30 institutional and private lenders, the presentation gathers her key compositions\u2014including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/265059\/young-roman\"><em>Young Roman<\/em><\/a>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>recently acquired by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/\">Art Institute<\/a><\/strong>\u2014showcasing her remarkable technical ability and innovative creations across multiple genres and materials. These range from portraiture to large-scale allegories to scenes inspired by her keen observation of everyday life, and are made in terracotta, plaster, bronze, and stone.<\/p>\n<p>Claudel\u2019s sculptures contend with universal themes of love, loss, passion, and the intimacy of daily experience; they embody the artist\u2019s uncompromising pursuit of stylistic and professional independence. Her genius and sensibility are so thoroughly modern that her works continue to resonate, perhaps even more loudly today than during her tumultuous life.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Emerson Bowyer at the Art Institute and Anne-Lise Desmas at the J. 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