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An impressive retrospective exhibition of the work of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i opened in Berlin on Thursday evening. The Neue Nationalgalerie museum in the German capital city offers culture lovers over 150 sculptures, photographs or archive films related to the great Romanian sculptor. Original works are also presented, brought over from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, a co-organiser of the exhibition, as well as sculptures from Romania that all illustrate the artistic evolution of one of the pioneers of modern sculpture.<\/p>\n
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More specifically, in the exhibition devoted to Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi, visitors can discover emblematic pieces such as Sleeping Muse<\/em>, Mademoiselle Pogany<\/em>, The Kiss<\/em>, Bird in Space<\/em> and Princess X<\/em>. A central element in the exhibition is an impressive reconstruction of a part of Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi’s studio Paris, in Impasse Ronsin. Three pieces from Romania are included, from the collection of the Romanian Peasant Museum and of the National Museum of Art of Romania, including the 1908 marble piece Sleep<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Open until August 9, the exhibition already receives a lot of interest from the public, with hundreds of people queuing at the Neue Nationalgalerie Museum to take part in one of the most important cultural events of the year in Berlin. \u201cAt the moment, Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi’s capital is Berlin,\u201d said the Romanian ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Adriana Loreta St\u0103nescu, at the opening.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not far away, in Rome, another exhibition dedicated to the Romanian sculptor and called ‘Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i: The Origins of Infinity’ and hosted by the Museo dei Fori Imperiali – Mercati di Traiano attracted over 12,000 visitors in a month. The exhibition, which runs between February 19 and July 19 and part of the Romania-Italy Cultural Year, was created by the National Museum of Art of Romania. The emblematic works presented there include the Prayer<\/em>, Prometheus<\/em>, Torso<\/em> and the Chair<\/em> from the Table of Silence<\/em> series.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth was marked on February 19, the Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi National Day, the entire year 2026 was declared the Year of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi, with events dedicated to his life and work already organised or planned both in Romania and abroad. Exhibitions, conferences, multimedia events, concerts and theatre performances will be hosted by Romania, the Republic of Moldova, France, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Israel, USA, Canada, Turkey, Egypt, Senegal, New Zealand, India or China, to celebrate one of the most famous and widely acclaimed Romanians of all time. (AMP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An impressive retrospective exhibition of the work of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i opened in Berlin on Thursday evening. The Neue Nationalgalerie museum in the German capital city offers culture lovers over 150 sculptures, photographs or archive films related to the great Romanian sculptor. Original works are also presented, brought over from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":996607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[30102,30160,32349,30372],"coauthors":[115219],"class_list":["post-996769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-anniversary","tag-brancusi","tag-exhibition","tag-sculpture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n