The Ambassador of Romania to

Japan
has the honour to invite you to

Constantin
Brancusi - Bird
in Space

Symposium
Brancusi-Noguchi Friendship:
Hallmark of Romania-Japan cultural
cooperation
with the generous support of
Yokohama Museum of Art

Programme:
13.45 14.00
14.00 14.50
15.00 15.30
15.30 16.00
Euro Asia Trading

Registration
Speech session
Gallery tour
Vin dhonneur
Corporation

Isamu Noguchi
Maiastra, Homage
sponsored
to by
Brancusi

Date:
Monday, October 12th 2015, 14.00 -16.00
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art, 3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
Language:
English and Japanese (consecutive translation)
RSVP by October 5th 2015
fax: 03-3479-0312; email: office@ambrom.jp

ACROSS THE SEA: ISAMU NOGUCHI AND CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

ARTSY EDITORIAL, SEP 20TH 2013

Sometimes geography has everything and nothing to do with artistic vision. Check out the similar, and famously
convergent, paths of these two artists who were both guided by nature, yet worlds apart.
In 1898, at 22, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi arranged an apprenticeship with a local cabinetmaker. Soon, he
set foot for Paris and enrolled in the cole des Beaux Arts.
Years later, at 21, Japanese-American art student Isamu Noguchi saw the now-controversial Brancusis 1926 show at the
avant-garde Brummer Gallery, andspellboundacquired a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to work as
Brancusis studio assistant in Paris.
Great good fortune such as this has something of the divine and inevitable," Noguchi said of his introduction to Brancusi.
The two artists influence was reciprocal and deep.
On the role of the sculptor, Brancusi famously said, "In art, one does not aim for simplicity. One achieves it
unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things." Even as his designs reached mass production,
apprentice-prodigy Noguchi found success and reliable awe in common, elemental materials, transformed.
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