Game of Forms*
Description
Executed in: 2017
Medium: Collage and ink on paper
Size: 30 x 21 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse "Geta Brătescu 2017"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Location
Bucharest
Description
Geta Brătescu was one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Romania and has been a central figure of Romanian contemporary art since the 1960s. Her work includes drawings, collage, textiles, photography, performance, tapestry, illustration and film. Within her avant-garde work, she continuously tackled questions related to female subjectivity, gender, memory, and the ongoing examination of the limits of creative expression. As an artist with a long career, Brătescu produced a complex body of work that showed an integration of life and art. Brătescu’s works have been part of many exhibitions and collections around the world, including the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles & New York; the Camden Arts Centre, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tate Liverpool; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; documenta 14, Athens & Kassel; the Venice Biennale; the Palais de Tokyo and the Paris Triennial; New Museum, New York; São Paulo Biennial; and Istanbul Biennial. Geta Brătescu represented Romania in the 2017 Venice Biennale with the project “Apparitions”, the first solo show of a female artist in the Romanian Pavilion.
In her collage series Game of Forms, she plays with cuts out of the world, in a symbolic manner - she includes them, designates and circumscribes them, “draws” them during a manual as well as a cognitive process. Geta Brătescu talked about drawing with scissors to describe this manner of work. Sometimes made with her eyes closed, the drawings are traces of her hands, dwelling between the cerebral eye and imagination.
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