Constantin Brancusi is more than a creator who, through the body of work he left behind, transformed the language of sculpture worldwide; he is an encounter, the silence between two rounded forms in bronze, states the Minister of Culture, Demeter Andras, in a declaration to AGERPRES marking 150 years since the birth of the great sculptor.

'Brancusi is more than an artist; he is far more than a creator who, through his work, reshaped the language of sculpture across the world. Brancusi is an encounter. The kind of spiritual intersection that leaves its mark; once you have ‘met' one of his works, something shifts within your inner, mental register. It is as though you suddenly understand that simplicity is the key to deciphering the absolute,' Demeter says.

Brancusi elevated to another level the conjunction between SIMPLICITY and the ABSOLUTE, the minister believes.

'The renowned British sculptor Henry Moore said of Brancusi that ‘in his work, form becomes conscious of itself'. The way he intervened in matter, not merely to ‘give it life', as it is often said, but to give it its own thought, produced a leap of spiritual magnitude; he altered the vibration of matter, whether marble, bronze or wood. He elevated to another level the conjunction between SIMPLICITY and the ABSOLUTE; he raised the relationship between humanity's profane turmoil and its sacred need for infinity. He granted matter the property of becoming movement within stillness, in real time, beneath the viewer's gaze,' the Minister of Culture emphasises.

Brancusi created with an almost mythical force and guided form with authority, but also with tireless rigour, he adds.

'Nothing was accidental. He loved photography and practised it out of passion, as another form of artistic exploration. He was fascinated by the way light falls upon surfaces, by the tension between solid and void, by the balance of composition. His studio was conceived almost scenographically, where every object had a role. Each work conversed with the light. There, in his studio in Paris, on incandescent evenings, exuberant and controversial spirits would gather: Guillaume Apollinaire, Amedeo Modigliani, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger. It was a place of almost continuous creative effervescence. Brancusi lived in that state of inner burning,' the Minister of Culture reveals.

Although he formed close friendships with great personalities of his time, Brancusi remained faithful to his own vision.

'He never aligned himself with the movements of the age. He did not allow himself to be absorbed by Cubism or Surrealism. He never betrayed his spiritual belonging to the place from which he set out. He lived in Paris, yet he was always inhabited by Romania. By its verticality. By its sobriety. By its essence. This verticality is, perhaps, one of the most important legacies he has left us. And if we look not only at or towards, but into the very meaning of his creation, we feel that Brancusi is rather the silence between two rounded forms in bronze than the cry of revolt and indignation of a rebellious artist,' is the Minister of Culture's message, on the 150th anniversary of Brancusi's birth. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Daniel Popescu; EN - writing by: Cristina Zaharia)