LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, SPAIN.- The La Regenta Art Center presents "Auguste Rodin," on view through June 9, 2002. A total of 57 sculptures, 25 drawings and 25 photographs are on view. The exhibition was curated by Hélén Marraud. The exhibition was first presented in Salamanca, and will later travel to A Coruña and Tarragona. The Great French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) brought monumental public sculpture into the 20th century and established a new sculptural freedom which continues to haunt our imaginations. His stated aim was to be absolutely faithful to nature; he steadfastly refused to idealize his subjects, creating instead an unprecedented combination of outer realism and psychological insight. Rodin’s uncanny ability to penetrate the masks of the men and women he portrayed, the bravura of his rough, light-catching modeling, and his extraordinary use and re-use of the same or similar figures, and even parts of them (torsos, limbs, and hands), have established his place among the greatest sculptors of all time.