Geta Brătescu

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Geta Brătescu (born May 4, 1926 in Ploieşti ; † September 19, 2018 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian artist.

Life

Geta Comănescu was born in 1926 as the only child of a family of pharmacists in Ploiesti. From 1945 to 1949 she studied painting with Camil Ressu at the University of Bucharest . She continued her education at this university with a study of literature and philosophy with George Călinescu and Tudor Vianu . She was denied a degree by the Communist Party. Your mother went into exile.

In 1951 she married the engineer and passionate photographer Mihai Brătescu, with whom she would collaborate on most of the photographic projects. In 1954 their son Tudor was born. She had to earn her living as a technical draftsman in the 1950s. In 1957 she was accepted into the Romanian Artists Association (UAP) and, thanks to her membership, was able to travel to the USSR, Hungary and Poland.

The artist lived in Bucharest from the mid-1960s. From 1969 to 1971 she was able to complete her training at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Since then she has been working on the border between art and literature. In 1970 she was awarded the prize of the Romanian art magazine Arta and in 1994 she received the Ambiente prize of the Romanian Association of Fine Artists. 1993 the Ion Andreescu Prize of the Romanian Academy went to Geta Brătescu. In 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of the Arts in Bucharest . In 2017 she took part in the Venice Biennale with a dispute (Apparitions) in the form of a CV survey in the Ceausescu regime , and later also in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel . She exhibited in Kassel in a separate room in the Neue Galerie . In 2018, shortly after her death, the first institutional show opened at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

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The small studio in Bucharest plays a central role in the work of Geta Brătescu. For her it means first of all a place of freedom; she lives out her playful experimental conceptual art behind the iron curtain . The studio is a totally ahistorical space. The studio is a space in motion, transformed through the transfer of image into action and vice versa , through the tension between acting and acting, between self-analysis and self-extinction. In 1978 her work space became the subject of the performance The Studio , in which she measured the studio with her body.

Fundamental to Brătescu's artistic concept is the fading out of the mundane reality of the line. Whether in drawings, lithographs, collages, book projects, self-portraits or actions that the artist captures using film or photographs. The result is a construct that unleashes the rhythm . The artist tries to concretize the lines and make them tangible; Recognizing their physical movement through space frees them from the surface. The materials she worked on included her body, found images and patterns, paper, fabric and words. She often depicted herself in the figure of the bird, who in her work represented her self-liberation as an artist and as a woman.

Brătescu created prints, illustrated Goethe's Faust in 1983 and worked for the literary magazine Secolul 20 from 1963 to 1983 . She created allegorical tapestries such as the Medea series and in the 1990s she made collages , objects , photographs , works on paper, cutouts with scissors, artist books and video films . She shot the artist films Hands and Atelier in 1973 with Ion Grigorescu , Earthcake in 1992 and Cocktail automatic in 1993 . One of her last works was a film about her artistic work that she produced together with Stefan Sara.

Quotes

Geta Brătescu about her work:

“I've worked too much, I still work non-stop. The studio is full. "

- From: Alina Șerban: Daybook documenta 14 . Pestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York, 2017

“Drawing gives me a sense of freedom. I draw as if I were walking or flying through an empty room. "

- From: Alina Șerban: Daybook documenta 14 . Pestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York, 2017

Works in museums

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1947: Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1960: Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1963: Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1967: Sala Dalles, Bucharest
  • 1970: Atelier, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1971: Atelier II, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1972: Sala Dalles, Bucharest
  • 1973: Magnets, Bucharest
  • 1976 - Atelier III - Towards White, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1976 - Studio 3 - Verso il bianco . Accademia di Romania, Rome
  • 1981: Medea's portraits . Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1983: Vestigii , Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1984: I have drawn for Faust . Casa de Cultura RFG, Bucharest
  • 1985: Lyngby Kunstforening, Lyngby , Denmark
  • 1987: Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest
  • 1988: - Galerile de Arta Timișoara; Galeriile de Arta Arad, Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea, Romania
  • 1990: Arnold-Jotzu Gallery, Bad Homburg, Germany
  • 1992: The Myths and Stories of Geta Brătescu, Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
  • 1999–2000: National Museum, Bucharest
  • 2008: Geta Brătescu, Galerie im Taxispalais , Innsbruck
  • 2009: Capricio, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich
  • 2010: Alteritate, Mezzanine Gallery, Vienna
  • 2013: Galerie Barbara Weiss (with Paul Neagu , Berlin)
  • 2015: Liverpool Tate, Liverpool
  • 2015: Geta Bratescu: Drawings with the Eyes closed . Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis , USA
  • 2016: Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg (retrospective)
  • 2018: New Berlin Art Association
  • 2020: Art Museum St. Gallen

Group exhibitions

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten of June 10, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on December 5, 2017 from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten
  2. ↑ Geta Bratescu's biography. In: Art Museum St. Gallen. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Die Welt from May 27, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on December 4, 2017 from the world
  4. ↑ Geta Bratescu's biography. In: Art Museum St. Gallen. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The New York Times, May 23, 2017 - Nexis article, retrieved December 4, 2017 from The New York Times
  6. ↑ The Telegraph, May 19, 2017 - Nexis article, retrieved from The Telegraph on December 4, 2017
  7. ↑ dpa weblines from November 29, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on December 4, 2017 from dpa weblines
  8. ↑ LE VIF of June 2, 2017 - Article on Nexis, retrieved from Le VIF on December 4, 2017
  9. ↑ The easy in the difficult. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Die Welt from May 27, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on December 4, 2017 from the world
  11. ↑ The Irish Times, November 18, 2017 - Nexis article, retrieved from The Irish Times on December 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brătescu, Geta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bratescu, Getta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploieşti
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2018
Place of death Bucharest