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 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. This exhibition in Basel, co-organized with the Mumok, is a large-scale retrospective that 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