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Geta Brătescu: Mrs. Oliver in her traveling costume, 1985, reprinted 2012.
MATRIX 254 features a selection of works by artist Geta Brătescu (b. 1926), a critical figure in the history of postwar Romanian art. For over fifty years, the artist has continually reinvented her practice and subject matter, alternating among film, textiles, collage, performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. What remains consistent throughout her body of work, in the words of the exhibition’s curator Apsara DiQuinzio, is “a rigorous, yet playful sense of experimentation.” Due in large part to Nicolae Ceauşescu’s totalitarian regime and Romania’s subsequent political isolation in the latter half of the 20th century, Brătescu’s work was little known to international audiences until recently. For her first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum, Brătescu presents key works made between the years 1974 and 2000.
Geta Brătescu / MATRIX 254
July 25–September 28, 2014
University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/254
