6/25/2023 0 Comments The duino elegiesOriginally conceived seven years prior for the Monument to Victor Hugo-in which the muse, perched above the French literary giant, whispers inspiration to him- La Muse tragique is presented here as a single figure, evoking a heightened pathos befitting its subject’s symbolic identity. Rilke venerated the sculptor’s ability to translate poetic sentiments into figuration, as exemplified by Rodin’s large bronze La Muse tragique (1896). Two decades earlier, Rilke had moved to Paris to write a monograph on Auguste Rodin, initiating a complex but lasting friendship between the two men. Concerned with the interplay of suffering and beauty in human existence, the Elegies also project a hopeful vision of a more peaceful world. There, while standing atop a cliff overlooking the Adriatic Sea, he claimed to hear the following line: “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” Rilke eventually used these words to open the Duino Elegies, a 1923 collection of ten intensely religious metaphysical poems. In 1912, Rilke was invited to stay at Duino Castle-a fortress just north of Trieste, Italy-by the Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis. Gagosian is pleased to present Duino Elegies, a group exhibition that traces the resonance of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry through artworks spanning the past 150 years. The beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,Īnd we revere it so, because it calmly disdains
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