Brancusi reigns in majesty on the top floor of Beaubourg, as a master of modern art who knows only harmony.
The first plaster,
The Rooster
, thick as a grass, serrated like a saw, superbly opens the route which, by its masterful simplicity and its evocative power, is like an enchanted path.
It shines on its white base, also jagged, in the black tunnel where the images of the Parisian workshop parade under the snow, impasse Ronsin (15th), where the artist works among his creatures, his sculptures, his children .
White on black.
Then white on white, like a snow landscape.
This stylized
Rooster
can be found in a group, in three monumental plaster casts in full light which rest on their fine metal structure, giants with fragile ankles which stood under the 7 m ceiling of his workshop.
Brancusi (1876-1957) symbolizes the flight of sculpture with his
Birds in Space
, stylized like arrows, a small abstract army looking here at the Paris sky...
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