Brancusi – Endless Column


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Brancusi – Endless Column

Endless Column, Tg-Jiu , Gorj , ROMANIA
Coloana Infinitului

Column of the Infinite


Column of the Infinite

“A survey of 500 British artists, curators, critics and art dealers asked each to name the world’s most influential piece of modern art.” Brancusi’s “Endless Column” was among the top ten in the world.

Source: Art & Antiques, Sept 2005 p71

Column of the Infinite

Column of the Infinite

The Ensemble is interesting urbanistically in that Brancusi placed the works along an axis stretching from the floodplain of the River Jiu, where the Table of Silence is located, to higher ground one mile distant where he situated the Column.

 

Column of the Infinite

Column of the Infinite

Second turn – CET, Romanesti

 

Column of the Infinite

Column of the Infinite

 

The column’s complex restoration in recent years was completed under sponsorship of the World Monuments Fund, World Bank Romanian Government, and others.

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All Photos Copyrighted By : Vicol Emilian Robert

 


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