Chapelle Rodin
Re-opening : La sculpture et son socle
Chapelle Rodin, Musée Rodin, 75007, until 7 february
2006.
This old vault contiguous to the Rodin
Museum is old an appendix of the Hotel of Biron. In 1874, the
Congregation of Crowned Heart of Jesus, owner of the places, engaged
the construction of this vault in a neo-gothic style very trendy at
this time. Rodin will buy the whole place in 1908 then will bequeath it
to its death to the French state. Today still, the places, the
hotel and the garden, keep preserving a rare serenity in Paris.
The vault re-open today after a complete restoration directed by the
architect Pierre-Louis Faloci since 1999. A new roof of glass,
natural light for public spaces, the creation of an auditorium of 90
places inside the basement, make vault a true independent place of
exhibition, of 5000 square meters on seven floors. It should
accommodate two great temporary exhibition every two years. The
inaugural exhibition relates to the report/ratio of the sculpture to
its base and its essential valorization in space. Taking up the idea of
1913 that photography reports to us opposite, famous Bourgeois of
Calais is high with four meters of the ground, on a scaffolding.
Beyond Rodin, this topic of the base is declined through sculptures of
several different Masters: Giacometti, Bourdelle, Louise
Bourgeois, Brancusi.