Last October, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) unveiled a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the exceptional range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Initially derided by critics, Rosso later achieved renown for his radical approach to process, materiality, and form.

The presentation, anchored by major loans from the Museo Medardo Rosso in Italy, explores the artist's mastery of abstraction, light, and shadow, as well as his tendency to return again and again to the same subject, rendering a familiar form in an array of diverse materials from plaster, wax, and bronze to photography and drawing.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano