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Therefore, Rodin focused on finding movement in the matter. He treasured the foots- teps of his creative imprint, worshipping the accidental imperfections that Mapplethorpe put all his energy to control.
That their models are female or male and whatever their attraction to one sex or the other, the two artists have played with the eroticism of their obsessions. The permanence of their subjects and of their recurring themes bring them closer in this troubling and unprecedented exhibition at the Rodin museum.
“...Like those deep echoes that meet from afar
In a dark and profound harmony.”
Charles Baudelaire translated by Geoffrey Wagner (NY Grove Press 1974)
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