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\nMembers are invit ed to view Rodin | Res ponse: FIELD Family Secrets before the exhibition opens to the p ublic. Enjoy snacks and a cash bar in our Great Hall. When you arrive\, p lease check in at the Visitors Services desk.
\nAbout the exhibitio n (on view June 14–September 8\, 2024):
\nWhat do an Egyptian mirr or from 2000 BCE\, a bronze statue conceived in France in the 1880s\, and a 2024 bio-sculpture composed from lawn waste have in common? Is it poss ible to uncover relationships between a photograph of a limestone quarry commissioned by the French government in 1851\, a ball of rubber harveste d in the Congo Basin in 1890\, and a lecture on knowledge by a Malian eth nographer broadcast on French TV in 1969?
\nPosing unexpected quest ions\, Rodin | Response is the culmination of a pedagogical rese arch project undertaken by Indian artist Supermrin. Informed by her own d ecolonial bioart practice FIELD\, the exhibition develops both as a provo cation and an artistic response to four canonical sculptures by Auguste R odin on temporary loan to the Cincinnati Art Museum. This spring\, Superm rin worked alongside her undergraduate students at the University of Cinc innati’s School of Art\, mining art history\, art theory\, and the museum ’s collection to weave narratives across time and space that probe the hy brid subjectivities within and beyond Rodin’s original propositions. Rodin | Response presents contemporary sculpture as inheritances—the “family secrets” embedded within the fragmented legacies of modernism an d coloniality.
\nRodin | Response: FIELD Family Secrets is organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum in collaboration with Supermrin and the School of Art\, University of Cincinnati\, and the participation of the Iris Cantor Collection.
\nSponsored by the Harold C. Schott Foundation.
\nImage credit: Auguste Rodin ( French\, 1840–1917)\, Jacques de Wissant (detail)\, 1885–86\, ca st 1989\, bronze\, h. 83 7/8 in. (223.2 cm)\, Courtesy of Iris &\; B. Gerald Cantor Foundation\, Photo Addison Doty.
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