This Tuesday 27 In August, the exhibition will officially open with the works of the American contemporary artist Nate Lowman, in dialogue with the sculptures of the Frenchman Auguste Rodin.

Under the curatorship of Eneas Capalbo, The exhibition will open at 19 hours and will exhibit a series of paintings by Lowman in the room that houses emblematic pieces by the French sculptor, like “The Kiss”, “The Earth and the Moon” or the bust “Monumental Head of Balzac”.

About the inauguration, the museum director Andrés Duprat, He maintained that “Rodin's work has been key in the formation of Lowman's plastic universe and a source of inspiration for several of his productions., such as the paintings created from the 'Balzac Monument' or the series that takes up the French master's studies on the dance and movement of Cambodian dancers".

The director maintained that “the century that distances the productions of Rodin and Lowman speaks through the interpellation that the past directs to the present and the light that the present sheds on aspects of the past.”. Submitted to that challenge, “The current perspective opens perspectives in which new nuances suggest creative and unexpected approaches.”.

Through actions like this, the Fine Arts proposes to renew the reading of its collection. “From the link with contemporary productions – adds the director of the Museum –, it is possible to inscribe a centuries-old heritage in the coordinates of the art of our time, to revitalize the historical narrative that accompanies the course of each work”.

Meanwhile, Lowman – born in Las Vegas, in 1979 – remembers that in his youth he used to visit LACMA with his family (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), in front of which a version of the monument to Honoré de Balzac made by Rodin in 1898. “This work became the focus of my interest every time I visited the museum. As an adult, “I realized it was my favorite sculpture.”, the artist evoked.

“Then I moved to New York., where the Statue of Liberty is located, a figurative french building, a building-sculpture made of copper. In 2016, I started painting flowers and leaves in isolated shapes. On one of them I decided to represent my own version of the Statue of Liberty, as well as the head of Balzac sculpted by Rodin”, Lowman explains about the works he presents at the Fine Arts.

Nate Lowman's intervention can be visited in the central room on the ground floor of the Museum, from Tuesday to Friday, of 11 a 19.30 (last entry), and on Saturdays and Sundays, of 10 a 19.30, With free entry.