Friday 13 February 18.30
Brancusi's Modernism

	Constantin Brancusi Danaïde c. 1918  Presented by Sir Charles Clore 1959 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2004

Erotic and mystical, a metropolitan peasant, Constantin Brancusi was one of the purest and most authentic of modern artists. While friendships with Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Francis Picabia and others put him at the heart of the Paris avant-garde in the early twentieth century, art critic Jonathan Jones will argue that the Romanian-born sculptor was never anything but irreducibly himself. His art is at once modern and ancient. Sensual abstractions of the human form inhabit it along with animal totems and mythologies - the Fatal Pyramid, the Endless Column. Jones’ talk will explore Brancusi’s relationship to modernism and to myth.

Free with Constantin Brancusi exhibition ticket.
No booking but numbers may be limited if the galleries are crowded.

This talk will be BSL interpreted

Constantin Brancusi sponsored by Aviva plc

 
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