Brâncuşi, Britain and the Idea of Modern Sculpture
Thu 27 Jun
|Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
The concluding event of the Henry Moore Foundation’s research season ‘Brâncuşi and Britain’ organised with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute
Time & Location
27 Jun 2024, 10:15 – 19:15
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham SG10 6EE, UK
About the event
The Romanian Cultural Institute in London is delighted to join forces with Henry Moore Foundation for the Brâncuşi Season, which examines the artist's reception in Britain, its wider resonance in modern and contemporary art and the impact it has made on changing definitions of modern sculpture in Britain.
Over the last few months, insightful events, from curatorial discussions to seminars, explored Brâncuşi’s legacy in Britain.
Brâncuşi is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, hailed by Henry Moore for stripping back sculpture’s centuries-old overgrowth and restoring its shape consciousness. Brâncuşi’s artistic innovations drew the attention of an international network of Modernist peers throughout his career, including in Britain, where his work was first exhibited in 1913.
In more recent decades, historians have reckoned with the complexity of the artist’s work in new ways, teasing out its dynamics of difference and repetition, transience and permanence, abstraction and embodiment.…