{"id":5925,"date":"2017-06-07T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:49:52","slug":"the-studio-a-tireless-ongoing-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/the-studio-a-tireless-ongoing-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"geta-bratescu-Le-Theatre-des-Formes\"<\/p>\n

Geta Br\u0103tescu: “The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space”
\n7 April-18 June 2017<\/h2>\n

Ninety-one year old Romanian artist Geta Br\u0103tescu’s vivid practice has comprised performance, textile work, paper collage, print-making, film and installation. “The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space” at London’s Camden Arts Centre provides a rare opportunity to discover the breadth of the artist\u2019s oeuvre through her long-standing yet not widely known practice.<\/p>\n

Living and working for most of her life in Bucharest under Ceau\u0219escu\u2019s repressive communist regime, Br\u0103tescu embraced the studio as an autonomous space, free from economic or political influences. Her exhibition at Camden Arts Centre focuses on this lifelong approach to the studio as a performative, contemplative and critical space to reflect on one\u2019s own position in the world.<\/p>\n

Throughout her career she has looked at this space as a place to redefine the self, raising questions of identity, dematerialisation, ethics and femininity. Fascinated by literature, stories from Aesop and Kafka and prominent figures such as Medea, Dido or Faust reappear in her work, forming a repertoire of philosophical enquiry.<\/p>\n

Much of Br\u0103tescu\u2019s practice dissipates boundaries between art and life. Incorporating everyday items such as cigarette papers, teabags and the wooden stirrers from her daily coffee, works accrue time throughout their production, taking on a diaristic nature. This reflection on the everyday takes on a particular autobiographical intimacy in seminal pieces such as Vestiges<\/em> (Vestigii), 1978, where fabric scraps inherited from her mother over the years are carefully configured on the page. Other works employ methods associated with revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts, such as automatic drawing, ink-blot pictures and regularly drawing with her eyes closed, where Br\u0103tescu taps into an inner consciousness to bring gesture and association to the fore.<\/p>\n

\"geta-bratescu-vestiges\"<\/p>\n

As well as being the subject of much of her work, Br\u0103tescu\u2019s studio was also the stage for temporary installations and performances to camera. Film works capture her experiments in material rearrangements, measuring space against her body and charting the movement of her hands, whilst in photographic series she poses to camera, recording the disappearance or concealment of her own image.<\/p>\n

Industrial geometric forms reappear in many works, informed and influenced by her residencies as part of the Artist Union and her long-term role as Art Director for Romania\u2019s main cultural magazine Secolul 20<\/em>. Works from her collaged series, described by the artist as “drawing with scissors”, playfully choreograph movement, form and shape. Encouraging elements of chance, Br\u0103tescu carves out the studio as a space for continual experimentation and freedom of imagination.<\/p>\n

At 91 years old, Br\u0103tescu continues to be a prolific artist working in her studio every day. Many of the works in the exhibition were borrowed directly from her studio, having seldom been exhibited.<\/p>\n

Geta Br\u0103tescu is representing Romania at the 2017 Venice Biennale with a project curated by Magda Radu, Curator and Art Historian at Salonul de proiecte Bucharest. In collaboration with the Romanian pavilion, Camden Arts Centre Director Jenni Lomax will give a talk about Br\u0103tescu\u2019s work in Venice in September.<\/p>\n

“The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space” is organised by Camden Arts Centre in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and the Geta Br\u0103tescu Exhibition Circle.<\/p>\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Camden Arts Centre<\/strong>
\nArkwright Road
\nLondon NW3 6DG United Kingdom
\n+44 (0) 20 7472 5500<\/p>\n

Hours:
\nTuesday and Thursday-Sunday, 10AM-6PM
\nWednesday, 10AM-9PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image (top):<\/strong>
\nLe Theatre des Formes<\/em>
\nby Geta Br\u0103tescu
\ncollage on\u00a0paper, 6 parts
\nCourtesy of\u00a0the artist, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
\nPhoto: Stefan Sava<\/p>\n

Image (centre):<\/strong>
\nVestiges (Vestigii)<\/em>
\nby Geta Br\u0103tescu
\n1978
\nCourtesy Luisa Malzoni Strina Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geta Br\u0103tescu: “The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space” 7 April-18 June 2017 Ninety-one year old Romanian artist Geta Br\u0103tescu’s vivid practice has comprised performance, textile work, paper collage, print-making, film and installation. “The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space” at London’s…<\/p>\n

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