Medardo Rosso settled in Paris in 1889 and fell in with the city’s greats— Amedeo Modigliani, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin. He created visionary sculptures in a Post-Impressionist style, studying the transient and ephemeral effects of light. Though Rosso established a close friendship with Rodin, he spent most of his career in the master’s shadow. In 1917, when Rodin died, the playwright Guillaume Apollinaire wrote, “Rosso is now, without a doubt, the greatest living sculptor.” Despite Apollinaire’s praise, Rosso was not widely known when he died 11 years later, in 1928, at age 70. Mumok’s large-scale retrospective places art by the sculptor and theorist among more recent works made by those he influenced, including Francis Bacon, Constantin Brâncuși, Alberto Giacometti, and Eva Hesse. —Elena Clavarino