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Constantin Brancusi

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(1876 - 1957), Romania

Constantin Brancusi is a venerated patriarch of modern sculpture. His work evolved from a pursuit of modelled realism toward formal abstraction–concentrating in his sculptures what he conceived to be the essence of form in space. Brancusi pursued the creation of his own photographic endeavors with the same rigour and quest for purity as he did with his sculpture and insisted that only his images of his sculptures were circulated in order to give voice to each sculpture’s unique personality and convey its literal and allegorical relationship to his other works in his studio. His photographs, always printed by him, translated his three-dimensional sculptures into a new two-dimensional art form. Brancusi created complex compositions that often incorporate radical lighting; his photographs express a unique pictorial vision that moves decisively beyond mere documentation and firmly established Brancusi as one of the most remarkably innovative image-makers in the history of the medium.

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Brancusi was born in 1876 in Hobitza, Romania. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova and the Bucharest School of Fine Arts. Eager to continue his education in Paris, Brancusi arrived there in 1904 and enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he started working as Auguste Rodin’s assistant and frequented other notorious artists of the period such as Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Alfred Steichen. After his introduction to Man Ray in 1921, Brancusi’s photographic work becomes most prolific and noticeably aesthetically advanced. He died in 1957, and was buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse surrounded by sculptures he made for other deceased artists. He left behind 1200 photographs and 215 sculptures to the Museum of Art of the City of Paris. His work has been shown in two different exhibitions respectively in 2002 and 2012 at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery.

Brancusi’s photographs have been the focus of several exhibitions, including The Original Copy, Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Constantin Brancusi & Richard Serra: Resting in Time and Space, shown at the Foundation Beyeler; and Brancusi, Film and Photography, the monumental exhibition of Brancusi’s photographs exhibited at the Centre Pompidou.

Brancusi's works are housed in the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and other museums around the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art holds the largest collection of Brancusi sculptures in the United States.

Text courtesy Bruce Silverstein.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, 20th Anniversary Show at Bruce Silverstein, New York, USA Closed 16 December 2021–19 February 2022 Group Exhibition 20th Anniversary Show
Contemporary art exhibition, Constantin Brancusi, Brancusi's Flowers at Bruce Silverstein, New York, USA Closed 16 May–29 June 2019 Constantin Brancusi Brancusi's Flowers

Recent Artworks

Vue d'Atelier, Adam et Coupe, Eve by Constantin Brancusi contemporary artwork photography
Constantin Brancusi Vue d'Atelier, Adam et Coupe, Eve, 1921–1922 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1921–1922
6 x 9 inches
Bruce Silverstein Contact Gallery
Endless Column (In Edward Steichen’sGarden at Voulangis) by Constantin Brancusi contemporary artwork photography
Constantin Brancusi Endless Column (In Edward Steichen’s Garden at Voulangis), 1932 Gelatin silver print
34.3 x 24.1 cm
Bruce Silverstein Contact Gallery
Nature morte by Constantin Brancusi contemporary artwork photography
Constantin Brancusi Nature morte, 1933 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1933
9 x 7 inches
Bruce Silverstein Contact Gallery
Vue d’atelier, Mlle Pogany II by Constantin Brancusi contemporary artwork photography
Constantin Brancusi Vue d’atelier, Mlle Pogany II, c. 1923 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1923
12 x 15.5 inches
Bruce Silverstein Contact Gallery
Lis by Constantin Brancusi contemporary artwork photography
Constantin Brancusi Lis, c. 1925 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1925
11.5 x 9 inches
Bruce Silverstein Contact Gallery

Constantin Brancusi In Ocula Magazine

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Biraaj Dodiya and Udit Bhambri on Collecting, Making, and Seeing Art Ocula Conversation Biraaj Dodiya and Udit Bhambri on Collecting, Making, and Seeing Art By Roshini Vadehra, New Delhi

Artist Biraaj Dodiya and collector Udit Bhambri on the different ways that art can be experienced.

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Constantin Brancusi In Related Press

Dancing around Shanghai Related Press Dancing around Shanghai 4 November 2019, ArtReview

In Production: Art and the Studio System, Yuz Museum, 7 November – 1 March Every week is art week somewhere, but not every week is art week in Shanghai. So you'll be wanting to be there during

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