An important retrospective dedicated to the work of Constantin Brancusi in France will be organized, between March 27 and July 1, by the famous museum of modern art Centre Pompidou in Paris, in institutional partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) and the Romanian Embassy to the French Republic, reads an ICR press release, sent on Friday.The exhibition will bring together nearly 200 sculptures, photographs, drawings, films, archival documents, as well as items of furniture from the artist's Parisian studio.The curatorial vision belongs to Ariane Coulondre, who also proposes an immersive experience in Brancusi's studio, created with the help of set designer Pascal Rodriguez, complemented by an information space.Alongside the works on display, the curator of the exhibition has also chosen to reveal some details about the Romanian sculptor's musical affinities, dance and music being an important part of his life.As a unique element of the exhibition, the work Leda will be presented in motion, on a rotating pedestal, in perpetual metamorphosis, as Brancusi himself presented it in his studio, says the source.The extensive exhibition project was carried out with the support of several international museums that hold works by Brancusi, such as Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), Craiova Museum of Art, etc.The last Brancusi retrospective in France took place in 1995, also at the Centre Pompidou, curated by Margit Rowell.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
