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Akim Monet Fine Arts presents Time Capsule — Rodin — The Sculpted Voice, a landmark exhibition that brings together early casts, intimate studio studies, and monumental bronzes produced today under the stewardship of the Musée Rodin.
Highlights include Eve, Saint Jean-Baptiste, the Standing Faunesse, the Hand of God, and the lyrical La Voix intérieure (The Inner Voice). Smaller bronzes evoke the atmosphere of Rodin’s atelier, while photographs of monumental sculptures frame the dialogue between intimacy and grandeur — among them the Monument to Victor Hugo, the 13-foot Homme qui marche sur colonne (Walking Man), and La Porte de l’Enfer (The Gates of Hell). Together, these works form a true “time capsule” — preserving Rodin’s sculpted voice while revealing its extraordinary vitality across time.
Auguste RODIN (1840–1917) Saint Jean-Baptiste, reduction n°1 – half life size. Bronze, richly shaded green-brown patina. 30 5/8 × 18 3/4 × 9 1/4 in (77.8 × 47.5 × 23.3 cm). Signed “A. Rodin." Cast in 1930 by Alexis Rudier Fondeur.
International Partnerships & Platforms
Created in 1916, thanks to Auguste Rodin’s donation of his works and collections to the French state, the Musée Rodin opened in Paris in 1919. This iconic institution recently underwent an extensive renovation and reopened in November 2015.
Rodin the Alma Project is a public-private partnership between Akim Monet Fine Arts, LLC and the Musée Rodin, Paris.
The website www.exhibitionarchive.org is the digital archive of the exhibitions organized and curated by Akim Monet from 2011 to 2023, across Berlin, Geneva, Los Angeles, and Dallas. After a decade in Germany, where Akim Monet founded and operated the renowned Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet GmbH on Berlin’s famed Postdamerstrasse, he moved his practice to Los Angeles in 2018, and then to Dallas in 2021. In the US, he continued to develop his focus on thematically curated exhibitions that juxtapose modern and contemporary art. Since 2026, Akim Monet Fine Arts has been based in Palm Beach, with a European base in Italy, continuing an international program of curatorial projects, art advisory, and private dealing.
Through Monet Art Advisory, Akim Monet has advised private collectors and institutions internationally for over three decades, drawing on experience across Europe, the United States, and Asia. His formative professional years included a decade in New York, both privately and as the director of sales for North America of legendary Picasso dealer Jan Krugier. His advisory work combines art-historical scholarship, market knowledge, and long-term cultural relevance, with an emphasis on building collections of intellectual coherence and enduring significance.
In parallel with his curatorial and advisory activities, Akim Monet maintains an active photography practice. Widely exhibited, his work is featured in international private and institutional collections and on the digital platform Akim Monet Photography.
Independent Curator-Dealer
With over 35 years of experience in the international art world, Akim Monet brings together curatorial inquiry, scholarship, collecting, and dealing within a practice centered on cultural relevance and historical continuity. His work spans antiquity, modernism, and contemporary art, with a particular interest in the continuities connecting mythology, religion, science, technology, consciousness, and the changing understanding of what it means to be human. Based in Palm Beach, with a European base in Italy, he works internationally across the United States, Europe, and Asia. A complete archive of his exhibitions and curatorial projects through 2023 can be accessed at www.exhibitionarchive.org.
In the press
German & International press
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2011 - 2018
