Carving a niche

Five Romanian sculptors to pay tribute to Brancusi in a show at NGMA gallery

MUMBAI: The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) and Romanian Cultural Institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Romania has brought down ‘Archetypes’, an exhibition of sculptures to Mumbai.

These works by renowned Romanian sculptors like Adrian Ilfoveanu, Darie Dup, Reka Csapo Cup, Aurel Vlad and Georgeta Gabrovschi is actually a tribute to the well known sculptor of Romania, Constatin Brancusi.
 
Brancusi is widely considered across the world as the main promoter of the non-figurative art during twentieth century Europe. The exhibition comprises of a series of works by Romanian contemporary artists, whose vision and artistic endeavors are relevant and applicable to Brancusi’s conceptualisation. The unique show will be on till January 18 at gallery NGMA.

Professor Rajiv Lochan, the director of the National gallery says, “It is important to note that Brancusi was highly influenced by the Indian Buddhist culture too. In fact, he had spent two hours with the then Maharaja of Indore discussing Indian art and sculptures.”

He adds, “Hence it was very interesting to get this exhibition down here to show people some of his brilliant ideas.”

It is known that Brancusi has merely sculptured things and beings; instead, he sculptured ideas, archetypes.

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