<http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page=detalii&categorie=culture&id=200703 18-504276> Constantin Brancusi commemorated in Paris 50 years after death
The artist's family has asked for the sculptor's remains to be repatriated. published in issue 3894 page 12 at 2007-03-19 The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi was commemorated at the Romanian Orthodox Parish church in Paris this weekend. The event is one of several international cultural events commemorating 50 years since the death of the world acclaimed artist. On the same occasion, the Romanian Embassy to Paris in partnership with the Centre of National Monuments from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication launched, in a ceremony held at the de Behague Palace hosting the Romanian Embassy the European creation contests - sculpture and virtual arts under the motto 'Brancusi - Tribute and Legacy'. Romanian Minister of Culture Adrian Iorgulescu told NewsIn that a decision had been made to organise a 'Brancusi Year', when his ministry would become involved in opening photography and sculpture exhibition in Western countries. An exhibition dedicated to Brancusi will open in Ulm (Germany) in July, and another one in a Berlin museum in September. The Ministry of Culture will also organise an international symposium in 2007, inviting specialists whose careers had been tied to the work and life of Constantin Brancusi. In the meantime, Brancusi's family have asked the Romanian authorities to repatriate Brancusi's bones from the Paris Montparnasse cemetery, and to bury them in his birth locality Hobita, Mediafax informs. The sculptor's great-great-grand daughter Luminita Brancusi went to the cemetery in Hobita on Friday, to the tomb of the artist's mother, Maria Brancusi, on the 50th commemoration of Constantin Brancusi's death. Luminita Brancusi stated that the family was again asking the state authorities to bring his bones into Romania. She thinks that the tomb at the Montparnasse graveyard was a kind of a 'communal grave', as Brancusi was berried there together with two other members of the Istrati family. 'That was also his last wish, to be buried at Hobita, next to his mother, and not somewhere on the outskirts of Paris sharing the grave with other people', said Luminita Brancusi. Brancusi's family took to the cemetery in Hobita, on Friday, two marble books which they laid on the tombs they deem to be the artist's mother and father's. Luminita Brancusi explained that so far the authorities had been officiated commemoration services at the wrong grave. by <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> George Grigoriu (C) 2000-2005 Nine o'Clock ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." (Carlo Goldoni) "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix)
