The exhibition "Brancusi. Sculpting with Light", which presents a selection of original photographs taken by Brancusi in three prestigious private collections - David Grob, Bruce Silverstein New York and Christian Reyntjens - will open on Friday at the International Centre for Culture in Krakow (MCK), Poland.
According to the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), the curatorial concept is signed by Doina Lemny - an established expert in Brancusi's art, curator of reference retrospectives and author of numerous publications about the artist - in collaboration with Karolina Wojcik, coordinator of the MCK Exhibitions Department and curator of several exhibitions of the Polish institution.
The exhibition is an attempt to enter the creative process of the Romanian artist, to understand how he perceived the world and matter, how he used light and shadow to give the form deeper meaning.
It is conceived as an artistic journey adapted to the artist's own biography: the origin of the young man born at the foot of the Carpathians, the opening to the world through the temerity of having crossed Europe to reach the capital of the arts of the early twentieth century, his establishment in Paris and the transformation of his studio into a true laboratory of modern art.
The photographs taken by Brancusi subtly convey his artistic vision, his point of view on a theme and, especially, on his studio as a total work.
The exhibition ends with impressive images of the Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu, installed in 1937-1938, which symbolise his symbolic return to his native country, from whose heritage he nourished all his life.
The photographic experiments of the Romanian artist are juxtaposed with the works of contemporary artists from Krakow: Boguslaw Bachorczyk, Maciek Bernas, Bartek Buczek, Michal Sroka, Justyna Stasiowska and Bogdan Achimescu. Their works - installations, soundtracks, videos, reinterpretations of the studio - build a bridge between modernity and contemporaneity.
The exhibition is accompanied by an album that opens with a text by Doina Lemny and presents the set of original photographs exhibited, as well as a selection of images from the first album ever published about the Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu, in 1973, by the Romanian photographer Ion Miclea.
Organised with financial support from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) and the City of Krakow, the exhibition is part of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025 programme that is running until December 14.
"Brancusi. Sculpting with light" closes the series of major exhibitions included in the program of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025: "Nicolae Grigorescu. Painter of the Romanian ethos" (National Museum in Gdansk), "Iosif Kiraly. Old memories become more and more persistent" (Lodz City Museum), "One eye laughs, another cries. Romanian Art in the Ovidiu Sandor Collection" (International Centre for Culture in Krakow) and "Echoes from Edo, Glimpses from Meiji. The Art of Mizuno Toshikata" in progress, until November 16, 2025, at the Manggha Museum of Art and Technology in Krakow.
The Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025 is organised by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Romanian Cultural Institute, through its representation in Warsaw, on the Romanian side, and by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Bucharest, on the Polish side.
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