Avenue of Heroes, Tirgu Jiu
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1994
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 1994
28 pages
17 illustrations black and white
out of print
The masterpiece of landscaping and sculpture that Constantin Brancusi left at Tirgu Jiu (1937-1938), not far from the village of Hobita where he was born in Romania.
This is one of the supreme gestures of contemporary art. The site marks the spot where the Romanian people stopped the advancing invasion of their country in 1916.
The work comprises three parts: the Table of silence, the Door of the embrace, and the Endless column. They lie along a 1.7 kilometre-long line that passes through the city, starting from the River Jiu and in line with the Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul, a mediating point in the journey along the Avenue of Heroes to the rising section at the end, which establishes a direct dialogue, a sacred link, with the great open spaces of the Carpathian landscape.
Contents
Motivazione della giuria
Domenico Luciani, Brancusi a Tirgu Jiu, 1937-1938: dall’idea di un monumento all’invenzione di un luogo
Alexandra Parigoris, Brancusi a Tirgu Jiu, il ritorno del “figliol prodigo”
Eric Shanes, Il Viale degli Eroi
Marin Sorescu, Brancusi senza fine
Barbu Brezianu, Un’idea di Isamu Noguchi a Tirgu Jiu (8-11 maggio 1981)
Coriolan Babeti, Rumore intorno a Brancusi, l’artista che, in silenzio, ha dato forma al silenzio
Le infinite peripezie della Colonna senza fine (scheda di BARBU BREZIANU)
Mircea Eliade, Colonna come ierofania
Constantin Brancusi: nota biografica
Bibliografia
