Some of the most current art trends and preoccupations tend to pertain to Brâncuși and his work. Art lovers check his exhibits on the maps and plan their trips so as to take them as close as possible to the work of the person who became known as the inventor of modern sculpture.
But no matter how close we are to his works, how much of Brâncuși gets directly to us? The “Mirrors of Brâncuși” exhibition aims to overcome the safe barriers of traditional displays and to put us face to face with ourselves, passing everything through the sculptor’s filter.
What Brâncuși intended to leave in the memory of the people around are ideas that are ever-present in his entire work and indeed his life. To change it, you need an exhibition with a powerful impact, focusing on interactivity, fresh information, new technologies and new approaches.
The “Brâncuși’s Mirror” exhibition aims to leave a deeper and more specific impression of the sculptor on people, to share with the public some of the other works and stories from his life, less told and less known, as well as a reference to other concepts and definitions that are closer to the essence of Brâncuși, man and artist, using technology and interactivity.
This exhibit consists of two parts: the first one focuses on a biography of the artist that will reveal some lesser-known events, which outlined his artistic achievement, relationships with other artists of his time, traits of character not captured enough until now. The exhibition approaches a variant that includes new technologies (video projections, sound) to make the presentation dynamic, so that the information draws the attention and does not go unnoticed, inevitably envelops the viewer, so that by the end of the experience he will have learned new concepts about the sculptor.
The second part of the exhibition relies on interactive features and places visitors inside Brâncuși’s works. If we were forced by circumstances to analyze our features by making a direct comparison with the Sleeping Muse, would we discover that what really characterizes us are a few seemingly simple lines, but capable of displaying the entire map of our emotions in them? Or if we became a part of “The Kiss”, would we find that this gesture is not only about physical closeness, but that it turns into something so deep that it takes our breath away and we would have no choice but to feel more inside ourselves and less outside? With the help of modern technology, Brâncuși is taking off. Flies far away to Impasse Ronsin, where he was born, or flies towards us, to show us what we failed to notice — a bird requires no wings to aim for the sky.
A revolution in sculpture sustained on the shoulders of an Oltenia native who travelled to Paris on foot — this is how we could describe Brâncuși’s work. However, the Brancusian forms conceal an infinity in them. And to discover this, we need to put ourselves in the artist’s shoes. We trade places with Brâncuși and this way, through our reflection in the mirrors, we become both an artist and a muse.
Verticality, complexity hidden among the simple lines, emotion and return to oneself — this is what you will discover in the “Mirrors of Brâncuși” exhibition. And the collective perception will change and it will share with the public such concepts as simplicity in form and complexity in emotions, true meaning of things, direct reaction and defining Brâncuși as the “inventor of modern sculpture”.