The Minister of Culture, Corina Șuteu, will come on Thursday, 14 July, at Electric Castle, in order to connect alternative culture and La Sagesse de la Terre.
“I am happy to go to Electric Castle and to benefit from the Festival's support for
La Sagesse de la Terre. Such a meeting between an artist who revolutionised modern art — Brâncuși — and alternative culture, between culture and pop cult, deserves to take place.
La Sagesse de la Terre is a fundamental Romanian creativity resource and, with your help, we will get to keep it here, in a museum, available for all those who wish to look at it and know it. What this work has to offer is equally relevant today as it was when it was thought by Brâncuși,” Corina Șuteu, Minister of Culture, stated.
If over a century ago Romania called upon its citizens to “Give a Leu (RON) for the Athenaeum!”, in 2016 we are asked to “Give now for Brâncuși!”
Everybody can make a donation at Electric Castle by means of the special bracelet handed out by the organisers at a special location during the Festival. More information may be found on the site
www.brancusiealmeu.ro.
Currently,
La Sagesse de la Terre is own by the heirs of architect Gheorghe Romașcu, who bought the work of art from Constantin Brâncuși in 1911. If the Romanian state cannot recover this piece, it will enter the collection of a private collector willing to buy it, thus risking its not being available for the general public.
