London, 5 July 2012
On 15 September 2012, the “Bronze” exhibition will start at the Royal Academy of Arts. It will offer bronze works dating from Antiquity to present.
This important exhibition celebrates the historic, geographic and stylistic scope of this lasting medium. This exhibition will bring together significant works from the most ancient times to the present in a thematic disposition. With works covering a 5,000 years period, this is the first intercultural exhibition ever organised at this scale. The exhibition will offer more than 150 A-quality bronze works from Asia, Africa, and Europe and will include important discoveries as well as archaeological excavations. A lot of these works have never been seen in the United Kingdom before.
Organised in a thematic order, the exhibition’s different sections will focus on human figure, animals, objects, landscapes, gods, heads, and busts. The exhibition will include magnificent Ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan bronzes and some survivors of the medieval period. Ghiberti, Donatello, Cellini, and later Giambologna, De Vries, and others will present the Renaissance through bronze works. Bronzes by par Rodin, Boccioni, Picasso, Jasper Johns, Moore, Beuys and Bourgeois will be representative of the best artworks from the 19th century to today.