Table of Silence
Table of Silence is limestone
and when initially worked the 12 seats were much closer to the table and arranged in pairs. Table represents the table where the combatants
stay before they take part in a battle. Time is kept in hourglasses-seats which measures it. Everything is happening in silence.
Table
of Silence,
Gate of Kiss and Endless Column, are arranged on the same axis, oriented from west to east, with a total length of 1275
m. Work was started in 1937 and completed in 1938.
Having the following dimensions: diameter decks - 2.15 meters with a thickness
of 0.43 m and the center pillar has a diameter of 2 meters and a thickness of 0.45 m. According to enthusiasts of Brancusi art, the
Table of Silence is the underlying table before the confrontation with the enemy soldiers. Some make an analogy with the Last Supper
of Leonardo da Vinci.
Table and chairs extends ones memory after death, the author has chosen for the table and chairs the form
of a circle, as a dead form with no way to exit it. For visitors, it is the place of revival of memories, the place of deep meditation
on life and on death. The Table has become a symbol of the universe and the earth, on which we look upon with thoughts the helplessness
and humiliation to discover its hidden secrets and impenetrable silence.
Contemplating on it, Brancusi said in one of his aphorisms:
"Now in old age, I see that, in fact, the Table of Silence is another new Last Supper. The line of the Table of silence suggests the
curved closed line of the circle, which gathers, unites and brings closer.”
After 1989, the monumental ensemble in Targu Jiu,
was included in the list of European heritage, with the Romanian Athenaeum, Histria Citadel and Cantacuzino Palace.
Bibliography
The travel guide of Romania - Publisher Publirom, 2008
Institutul de Memorie Culturala "Poarta
catre patrimoniul cultural românesc" 2009. Institutul de Memorie Culturala 25 Dec 2009
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