A soccer team will wear a jersey featuring a work by Brancuși

Art lands in the world of soccer. And in particular, on the T-shirts of a team playing in Romania’s premier league, Clubul Sportiv Universitatea Craiova, which Italian fans this year saw grappling with AC Milan in the Europa League preliminaries. In fact, the club’s leaders decided to have a stylized version of Constântin BrancuÈ™i’s Endless Column reproduced for the new competitive season. This is one of the Romanian sculptor’s most famous works, one of the pinnacles of his production inspired by totemic art and primitive figurations: it is a large column more than thirty meters high, which was finished in 1938 and is located in the town of Târgu Jiu (a town located a few kilometers from Constântin BrancuÈ™i’s hometown of PeÈ™tiÈ™ani).

A spokesperson for the club told The Art Newspaper that the figure on the shirt was inspired by both the Column by the sculptor friend of Modigliani and the pillars of the porches of traditional Oltenia houses, from which BrancuÈ™i in turn was inspired. The figure represents, for Craiova, “verticality as the rigor of our common behavior, high aspirations and perfection.”

Source: The Art Newspaper

Image: BrancuÈ™i’s Endless Column and a player wearing a jersey reproducing it. Credit

A soccer team will wear a jersey featuring a work by Brancuși

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