TY - JOUR
A1 - Adussi, Filippo 
A2 - Anastasi,Dora 
PY - 2024 
TI - A “homeless” sculpture The problem of housing, starting with Auguste Rodin 
JO - Pólemos 
SN - 2281-9517/2281-9517 
AB - The paper explores the relationship between sculpture and architecture based on Günther Anders’ essay on August Rodin. The concept of «Obdachlosigkeit» (homelessness) allows us to reinterpret Rodin’s sculptures in an architectural key, insofar as it frames them as «homeless sculptures». However, we can move beyond the notion of homelessness by viewing Rodin’s sculptures as spatial activators. Rodin’s sculptures, in fact, evoke an architectural environment not only through the formal representation of certain structural principles, but also by demonstrating how movement occupies space. By analyzing Rodin’s works that highlight this aspect, it will be argued that the spatial activation process of these sculptures is evident through the involuntary embodied simulation of the actions they evoke, reflecting in practices of resignification of the relationship between the viewer, the artwork and the space in which it is placed.  
SE - 2/2024 
DA - 2024 
KW - Auguste Rodin
KW - Homeless Sculpture
KW - Günther Anders
KW - embodiment
KW - Obdachlosigkeit   
UR - https://www.rivistapolemos.it/a-homeless-sculpture-the-problem-of-housing-starting-with-auguste-rodin/?lang=en 
DO - 10.48247/P2024-2-006 
PB - Donzelli Editore
LA - it  
SP - 85 
EP - 100 
ER - 

@article{1048247/P20242006,
author = {Filippo Adussi and DoraAnastasi},
title = {A “homeless” sculpture The problem of housing, starting with Auguste Rodin},
publisher = {Donzelli Editore},
year = {2024},
ISBN = {2281-9517},
issn = {2281-9517},
abstract = {The paper explores the relationship between sculpture and architecture based on Günther Anders’ essay on August Rodin. The concept of «Obdachlosigkeit» (homelessness) allows us to reinterpret Rodin’s sculptures in an architectural key, insofar as it frames them as «homeless sculptures». However, we can move beyond the notion of homelessness by viewing Rodin’s sculptures as spatial activators. Rodin’s sculptures, in fact, evoke an architectural environment not only through the formal representation of certain structural principles, but also by demonstrating how movement occupies space. By analyzing Rodin’s works that highlight this aspect, it will be argued that the spatial activation process of these sculptures is evident through the involuntary embodied simulation of the actions they evoke, reflecting in practices of resignification of the relationship between the viewer, the artwork and the space in which it is placed.}
journal = {Pólemos},
number = {2/2024},
doi = {10.48247/P2024-2-006},
URL = {https://www.rivistapolemos.it/a-homeless-sculpture-the-problem-of-housing-starting-with-auguste-rodin/?lang=en},
keywords = {Auguste Rodin; Homeless Sculpture; Günther Anders; embodiment; Obdachlosigkeit.},
pages = {85-100},
language = {it}
}