Here’s a work I saw at Senso Gallery in Bucharest last fall, and the beginning of a poem I wrote about it.
I’ve seen warm marble in Bernini’s Rape of Persephone
—Where Pluto’s hand sinks into her flesh—
Pregnant marble in Brancusi’s Beginning of the World
—Where an ovoid rests on a polished steel plate:
The material world and its metaphysical alter in bud—
Marble draped in lavish folds in Michelangelo’s Pietà
Diaphanous in Giovanni Strazza’s Veiled Virgin
But I’ve never seen marble quite so soft and elastic
As that of Cristian Pentelescu’s in The Gate
Or if I did, I don’t remember—

Mira Tudor, Thank you for the images, information and poem (with astute imagery and charmed conclusion). Is it the angle of the photograph or are the two pillars in the Pentelescu gate somewhat flared at the top?
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