As part of the celebrations commemorating 45 years of existence, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá (MamBo, its acronym in Spanish) is presenting and exhibiting more than seventy works by Auguste Rodin, by Rodin¿s friends, and other artists from this French sculptor¿s time, in what will be the first stop of a traveling exhibition throughout Latin America. This represents the third phase of La Era de Rodin (The Era of Rodin) exhibit, which has gathered together works from the Soumaya Museum in Mexico, the Ponce Museum of Art, and the Luis A. Ferré Foundation in Puerto Rico, and that has already traveled through Mexico and the U.S. The figures that appear in the exhibit reveal Rodin¿s interior passion and the determination that elevated this master artist above his humble origins, with his incredible ability to create movement through playing with light. MamBo¿s director, Gloria Zea, affirmed that the ¿exhibit is truly transcendental because the works presented in it represent the most important collection of works by this artist after that at the Rodin Museum in Paris¿. Rodin was born in Paris in 1840 and died in Meudon (France) in 1917. He spent a great part of his early years learning anatomy. The artist¿s characteristic style reveals a deliberated severity of form and a laborious rendering of texture, while at the same time he creates polished surfaces and delicate shapes. Between 1858 and 1875, Rodin produced some important sculptures such as L¿Homme au Nez Cassé (The Man with the Broken Nose), which is prominent among these. Nevertheless, he did not achieve recognition until 1877, when he exhibited at the Salon his male nude sculpture L¿Age d¿Airain (The Age of Bronze). The famous Le Penseur (The Thinker) can be found at Rodin¿s final resting place. This traveling exhibit of large-scale bronze sculptures as well as pieces in marble, porcelain, plaster, and terra cotta . From Bogotá, the exhibit will go to Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, and Montevideo. Fifty two of the exhibited works were lent by the Soumaya Museum, and another nineteen by the Ponce Museum of Art; Forty two of these works are sculptures by Rodin, and the remainder are pieces done by his precursors and students. The exhibit includes two works that are emblematic in the history of human culture: Le Penseur (The Thinker) of 1880¿1881, a symbol of free thinking, and Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1886, a symbol of love, of a different scale from versions found in Paris.