Costantin Brancusi was familiar with methods of manipulating photographic images – inversion and superimposition of negatives, solarisation, printing in counterpart, contact sheets and enlargements. He possessed four cameras and developed photos in the darkroom in his studio. He also frequented famous photographers such as Man Ray and Charles Sheeler.

The exhibition “L’opera al bianco”, curated for the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice by Paola Mola and Marielle Tabart, reveals for the first time to the Italian public the photographic art of the Romanian sculptor, who was born in 1876 in Hobitza and died in Paris in 1957. L.B.

19.2.2005 – 22.5.2005
Constantin Brancusi. L’opera al bianco
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, 701 Dorsoduro,Venezia – 
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