Brancusi and the Minimalist Artistic Expression

Curatorial Monologues by Oana Maroti

Brancusi is an example of a man who overcame his condition by walking. I took a bus, others navigated in cages…Constantin Brancusi made it on his own, all the way to Paris, where he struggled to survive.

However, it's a good thing he loved walking and started such a long way even without any resources; otherwise, we wouldn't have advanced knowledge today, at an international level, about minimalism, a concept that unites continents.

I found Brancusi's intercultural kiss, which you see compared to 2 squirrels kissing, in a recently published photo album. Brancusi is a continuous influence. He brings Africans, Asians, and Europeans together at the same table, in a complex discourse, about abstraction.

And since I mentioned abstraction, I can suddenly move from art to philosophy, to psychology, education sciences, or technology through a single concept, just one word.

Both minimalism and the processes of abstraction are more difficult to understand because they assume universal culture and connections between several fields of research.

From the perspective of a Psychopedagogue who loves art and literature, curatorial presentations and discussions around artistic expression seem forced to me.

The principle of artistic expression is communication, issues already specified in art history and psychology, but which are not generally known, and the curatorial language becomes a repetitive narrative, without logic.

I tell you honestly, you cannot present art, nor work with atypicals, as a Psychologist or Psychopedagogue, without extensive knowledge of universal culture. To the same extent, I believe that without knowledge of psychology and especially Psychopedagogy (diversity and inclusion), that is, an understanding of how the brain works, especially the atypical brain, any curatorial presentation is unconvincing.

Those who make art and discuss it have no idea what it is. Let´s push contemporaneity a little further and finally understand what the minimalist artistic expression is and why we need it so badly.