The exhibition 'The Age of Rodin', with which he opened the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cartagena (Muram), closed its doors last Sunday with 19,920 visits.
The exhibition which opened on April 29 consisted of some 54 sculptures in bronze, marble and plaster, of which five of them were located in the temporary exhibition hall of the Museum Roman Theatre of Cartagena.
In addition, about 600 people participated in the parallel activities scheduled for the exhibition, of which 35 percent are children.
Of all activities, highlighted the views tactile for the blind.
Also, the Wednesday of the month of May is projected in the auditorium of Muram, different films to know the time when the sculptor lived.
Finally, there were the workshops, for children between 5 and 12 years, under the title "Modeling with Rodin."
'The era of Rodin' exhibited 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 tour began at the Paris Motor Show nineteenth century, setting the aesthetic model of France and the West.
In addition, one could appreciate the legacy of future generations Rodin in Camille Claudel highlighting or Emile-Antoine Bourdelle.
'The Age of Rodin' is a retrospective of the French master Auguste Rodin, the result of the sum of agency efforts Soumaya Museum, Fundación Carlos Slim of Mexico, who owns the works, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
This collection of the Museo Soumaya is, after the French, the world's largest on Rodin after Paris.
The sample was made in Cartagena is a selection of 300 works that form the library and was the first time you're in Europe after his country by San Juan de Puerto Rico, Bogota and Buenos Aires.
Source: CARM