Award-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman has been recruited by Christie’s auction house to sell expensive art_ a sculpture by Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi_ 150 years since his birth.
The actress features in Constantin Brancusi’s Danaïde cinematic 1.56 minute film.
Set to Golden Years by the late David Bowie, the camera moves between past and present as Kidman steps into galleries and comes close to Brancusi’s sculpture, inspired by his muse Margit Pogany.
The Danaïde (1913), bronze head influenced by his muse Mme Margit Pogany, will be offered for sale with the potentially record-setting estimate of $100 million on May 18 in New York. Newhouse bought it for $18.2 million in 2002, the highest price for a sculpture at the time, Artnet reported.
The movie lingers between memory, myth and modernity.
As she circles the sculpture, the legacy of Danaïde appears. She is the beginning of modern sculpture, a moment in art history when a new vision emerged breaking from previous centuries.
Kidman appears to have entered a world of joy, mystery and charm of Mme. Pogany more than a century later.
Brancusi’s Danaïde can be viewed at the S,I Newhouse collection, Rockefeller Center galleries in New York, through to 18 May:
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The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Celebrated as the patriarch of modern sculpture, Brancusi was who born in February 1876 is known reducing subjects to their pure, essential forms. Romania and global cultural institutions are hosting exhibitions and events this year to commemorate his legacy.
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