Medardo Rosso

Medardo Rosso (* 1858 in Turin, † 1928 in Milan, Italy) He was one of the great pioneers of modern sculpturing, quoting:
“Light being of the very essence of our existence, a work of art that is not concerned with light has no right to exist. Without light it must lack unity and spaciousness. It is bound to be small, paltry, wrongly conceived, based necessarily upon matter.
A work of sculpture is not made to be touched, but to be seen at such or such a distance, according to the effect intended by the artist. Our hand does not permit us to bring to our consciousness the values, the bones, the colour, in a word, the life of the thing. For seizing the inner significance of a work of art, we should rely entirely on the visual impression and on the sympathetic echoes it awakens in our memory and consciousness, and not on the touch of our fingers.”
A retrospective of Rosso's scluptures is now being exhibited in Museum of Modern Art in Vienna-Austria.
During the period before the WW1(Great War) and thereafter, the heads bearing the faces and their serenities of joys and disappointments are sharing those of the living people with those of the “Endless Mission’s Characters”, as WW1 threatens to replace them.

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