The centenary of Auguste Rodin's death, celebrated this year, gives rise to multiple events to reaffirm the impact of a sculptor that his time was slow to consider. On this occasion appears on May 26 a comic strip published by 21g, written by Eddy Simon and illustrated by Joël Alessandra.
Rodin: Biography by Women
Those who wish to penetrate the work and life of Rodin (and who are still thirsty for the sculptor after seeing the exhibition at the Grand Palais or Jacques Doillon's film in competition at Cannes), can lead their research enterprise with the Simon-Alessandra duo. The duo retraces their journey under the axis of the major women in their lives. Rose Beuret, who would accompany him all his life from 1864, was touched by the growing influence of his success with young models. In this gallery of women, Camille Claudel, at the heart of the second chapter, embodies fusional love, despite the age difference (24 years). In 1906, Rodin met Claire de Choiseul, who campaigned to introduce the eminent artist to the most eminent elites of his time.
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In addition to the ambitious exercise of collecting in a hundred pages a testimony on the artist, this comic strip offers pride of place to the personal contingencies of this lover of the feminine. Thus, we realize that the sculptor was torn between several women with opposite personalities. With this publication, Jean-Paul Moulin and his editions 21g perpetuate his editorial work on the rebirth of exceptional beings, including Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He also renewed his confidence in the duo Simon-Alessandra, already solicited on Gustave Eiffel. The album, in bookstores on June 26, delivers the intimate portrait of a man that posterity is busy celebrating in this centenary year.
Rodin – Fugit Amor, Intimate Portrait, Eddy Simon, Joël Alessandra
Exhibition Kiefer-Rodin at the Rodin Museum
From March 14 to October 22, 2017
79 rue de Varenne, 75007
