L'atelier de Brâncuși – une synergie de valeurs, discours, praxis

Abstract

A true avant-garde man, Brâncuși followed the thought of the matter by cutting and simplifying it in order to move closer to the real meaning of things. His workshop of the Impasse Ronsin frequented by Apollinaire, Tzara, André Salmon, Blaise Cendrars, Erik Satie, Le Douanier Rousseau, Modigliani, M. Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Paul Morand, Raymond Queneau, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Benjamin Fondane, Militsa Petrașcu, Eugène Ionesco, was for almost thirty years a true laboratory of artistic and literary works. The wise man of Hobița called by Salmon "the Mallarmé of statues" knew how to combine in his cosmogony both archetypal and avant-garde values, reflections, readings, goals, techniques and thus contributing significantly to the artistic and spiritual revolution of the first half of the 20th century.