Brancusian Kiss

– Intercultural Fashion Communication –

A Kiss is Just a Kiss, Textile Painting: Cristina Daniela Gagiu
Storytelling: Oana Maroti

When I hear concepts implying affection like love or a kiss, this is the image that pops into my mind...the left image to be precise, with a couple kissing.

Even if Klimt´s painting of The Kiss is prominent in the international visible culture, as a Romanian, my preferred aesthetic of The Kiss is Brâncuși´s sculpture The Kiss, also known as Sarutul or Le Baiser. This sculpture is considered the first modern sculpture of the twentieth century.

Inspired by the sculpture, C.D. Gagiu painted the Brancusian Kiss on a T-shirt making it ready to wear and presenting Brancusi´s art as a fashion symbol. The one destined to wear it is a Spanish neurodivergent beauty, T-shirt Communicator, one of the most intelligent people here (excluded by its own), capable of using critical thinking and whose mind has not been eroded by nationalism, xenophobia, or racism. In other words, the pacifist message is being worn by a top personality in this otherwise limited Catalan social context and the town is his catwalk scene.

The Brancusian kiss marks the proto-cubism style, therefore its presence in Barcelona, the city associated with Picasso and cubism is nothing but natural.

As T-shirt communicators, we wear art, we challenge and stimulate the viewer to process interculturality. The Brancusian kiss t-shirt tells a story of love, interracial, mixed love, but it´s also a universal call to reconsider erotism, sentiments, and the idea of a couple starting with the image of what is considered the first modern sculpture, made by Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian artist.

Communication is based on sharing, not at all on imposing. Make the intercultural kiss possible, open those closed doors, and ventilate your system. Clean your heads of self-made monsters and ideas of superiority.

Note that drag, and draga mean love, and the same goes with drago. Adjust your concepts as existence does not only reflect extremes.

Make the intercultural connection possible, Barcelona, become a draga city, not just a lost possibility! Enter into the universal cultural long-term dialog where equal, ecologic, and pacifist identity defines the future, not money.

It is rather childish, I must say, to keep the money-making on the backs of immigrants at the center of our interactions, instead of applying the principles of inclusion and fair treatment. If someone fools you once, the next time they owe you money, and as far as interactions are concerned, whether we are visiting the city as tourists or working here, we are the same as any local in terms of humanity.

<-><-><->Fragment from a strong feminine Manifesto for Peace and Human Rights - Transilvanian writer and artist, with 13 years of international communication intents and will keep going.