Rodin's Egypt Gallery Talk: Curators in Conversation

Please join us as Carl Walsh, ISAW Assistant Curator, hosts a conversation with Bénédicte Garnier, Musée Rodin, in the gallery for a behind the scenes look at Rodin’s Egypt. Bénédicte and Carl will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss Rodin’s sculpture and his Egyptian antiquities on display, and explore comparative perspectives on the representation of the human.

Bénédicte Garnier is in charge of the antiquities collection at the Musée Rodin. She has curated the exhibitions La Passion à l’œuvre, Rodin et Freud collectionneurs (Musée Rodin, 2008) and Rêve d’Egypte (musée Rodin, 2022) and co-curated Rodin Displacement (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2021), Rodin and Ancient Greece (British Museum, 2018), Rodin: La lumière de l’antique (Musée de l’Arles antique/Musée Rodin, 2013), and Rodin: Le rêve japonais (Musée Rodin, 2007). Garnier's publications include Rodin: Antiquity is My Youth: a Sculptor's Collection (2002) and Rodin intime: La villa des Brillants à Meudon (2015). She has her doctorate in art history from the Paris-Sorbonne and graduated from the Ecole du Louvre, where her work focused primarily on the history of sculpture (seventeenth–twentieth century), collecting, and artist’s houses.

This lecture is given in conjunction with ISAW's exhibition Rodin's Egypt. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were made possible by generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation.

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