Galerii de Arta din Romania

Mirondella,
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Monica Andriesei

Brancusi
de Pierre Cabanne

Brancusi est avec Rodin le plus grand sculpteur du XXe siècle. D'origine roumaine, né au pied des Carpates en 1876, venu à Paris en 1904, il y rencontre Modigliani et se lie d'amitié avec Marcel Duchamp. Quelques années plus tard, il s'installe dans la pittoresque et vétuste cité de l'impasse Ronsin qu'il ne quittera plus jusqu'à sa mort en 1957. Il y élaborera dans le bois, le marbre et la pierre, une oeuvre dont les formes épurées, partant de la nature, aboutissent souvent à l'abstraction. Têtes, femmes ou muses, oiseaux et animaux, ovoïdes aux contours caressants, grands élancements raffinés en composent l'essentiel. L'Amérique le révèle au fameux Armory Show de 1913. La France, où il fait d'abord scandale, le consacre ensuite et bientôt la Roumanie le célèbre en lui commandant l'ensemble monumental de Tirgu-Jiu où se dresse la légendaire Colonne sans fin haute de trente mètres. Patriarche solitaire, il polit, peaufine, répète, déplace et photographie sans cesse sculptures et socles qu'il léguera à l'Etat français. Ses ateliers ont été entièrement reconstruits devant le centre Georges Pompidou.

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Romanian Modernism: The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940
de Luminita Machedon et Ernie Scoffham

The return to Romania of avant-garde intellectuals from abroad during the 1920s stimulated radical changes that permeated and transformed Romanian society. During the 1930s Romania's cultural, technical, and artistic achievements rivaled those of Western Europe and in some respects surpassed them. This is the first book in English to reveal the extent to which modern architecture flourished in Romania--and is still visible as a neglected and almost forgotten past amid the contradictions of present-day Bucharest. Luminita Machedon and Ernie Scoffham focus on Bucharest between the two world wars. They show how the Dadaist Marcel Janco and others influenced the adoption of progressive policies, including the city's Master Plan of 1934, which became one of the most forward-looking plans in Europe and served the city's administration until well after the Second World War. Much of the text is based on archival research in Bucharest, on the journalism of the period, and on a small number of critical publications, both during the interwar years and since. Most of the period illustrations have never been published outside of Romania, and some are being published here for the first time. Included are photographs and drawings of buildings no longer in existence, as well as drawings of significant unrealized projects. The foreword is by Serban Cantacuzino, former editor of The Architectural Review and Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission in London. Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.

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