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The Regional Museum of Modern Art (Muram) opens today in Cartagena with 'The Age of Rodin' exhibition that opens its program of major exhibitions.
The sample was presented today by the Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets Ujaldón Enrique, who was accompanied by Soumaya Museum director and curator of the exhibition, Alfonso Miranda, and also commissioner Grabiela Huerta.
The exhibition will be inaugurated this evening at 20:00 hours by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and will remain open until 20 September.
'The Age of Rodin' is a retrospective of the French master Auguste Rodin, the result of "the sum of efforts between the Museo Soumaya, Fundacion Carlos Slim of Mexico, who owns the works, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism", said Ujaldón.
"This collection of the Museo Soumaya is, after France, the largest in the world of Rodin," he added.
The sample presented in Cartagena is a selection of 300 works that make up the collection and is the first time you're in Europe after passing through San Juan de Puerto Rico, Bogota and Buenos Aires.
The exhibition consists of 54 sculptures in bronze, marble and plaster, including five located in the temporary exhibition hall of the Museum Roman Theatre.
'The era of Rodin' is a representative sample of the artist's career in transit is discovered and the differences of academic art of the French master who broke schemes to open up new possibilities of expression in art.
The route begins at the Paris Motor Show nineteenth century, setting the aesthetic model of France and the West.
You can appreciate the legacy of Rodin, the new generations, among which Camille Claudel and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle.
Along with the exhibition, have designed a series of activities among which views tactile for the blind and visually impaired, which by touch is called the work of Rodin and other artists associated with it.
In addition, the Wednesday of the month of May will be screened in the auditorium from 20:00 am to meet different era movies where the sculptor lived.
Finally, we conducted workshops for children, for children 5 to12 years, under the title 'Modeling with Rodin. "
The Regional Museum of Modern Art
The new exhibition space with 819 square meters has over 8 rooms, plus the floor of the Palacio Aguirre.
It also has an auditorium, classroom workshops, administrative offices, reception area and shop, terrace and 'vending'.
"This new infrastructure represents a qualitative leap that will allow us to focus on a key period in modern art," said Ujaldón.
"In this sense," he continued going to work with major international institutions while also explains the Community's own collections, so that Muram become a living museum which houses paintings, sculpture, industrial design or decorative arts, "the owner of Fine Arts of Murcia.
Source: CARM
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