| | | | | | | | Geta Brătescu, Lady Oliver in Traveling Costume, 1980
© Courtesy of the Estate of Geta Brătescu, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest | | | | | | | | | | 29 October 2021 – 20 February 2022 | | | | Opening reception: Thursday 28 October 19:00 | | | | | | Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4020 Linz
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Photo: Françoise Masson
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Geta Brătescu, Towards White, 1975
© Courtesy of the Estate of Geta Brătescu, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest | | | | | | | 29 October 2021 – 20 February 2022 | | | | With the exhibition "Geta Brătescu – The Woman and the Bird" the Francisco Carolinum is the first museum in Austria, offering an insight to the work of the Romanian artist. Geta Brătescu was born in 1926 in Ploiești, Romania. She developed an impressive understanding of playful, artistic freedom in her work during the period of communist Stalinist dictatorship (1965 to 1989) under Nicolae Ceaușescu. She not only witnessed the revolution against the regime but also the tremendous changes that the introduction of democracy and a free market economy triggered, both socially and politically, and worked on them artistically in her studio in Bucharest until she passed away in 2018 with of over 90. | | | | | | | | | Geta Brătescu, Towards White (Self-portrait in seven sequences), 1975
© Courtesy of the Estate of Geta Brătescu, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest | | | | | | | | | Geta Brătescu, Selfportrait with Bird, 1988, drawing, coloured pencil on paper, 29,5 x 42 cm
© Romanian Private Collection (Mircea Pinte, Cluj-Napoca | | | | | | Geta Brătescu is considered to be one of the central figures of Romanian art after World War 2. The Hamburger Kunsthalle held a retrospective in 2016. In 2017, she represented Romania at the Venice Biennale. In the same year, her works were exhibited at documenta 14 in Kassel.
The exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum features video and photographic works from the 1960s and 1970s which established her appreciation as the 'grand dame' of conceptual art in Romania. In addition, the exhibition focuses on the material paper, which has also played a prominent role since the 1970s and is transformed in collages and cut-outs into a space without any boundaries. | | | | | | | | | Geta Brătescu, Don Giovani, 1979
© Courtesy of the Estate of Geta Brătescu, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest | | | | | | Curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher
Conceived in collaboration with Marian Ivan (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest), who represents the aritst’s estate along with the gallery Hauser & Wirth. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Action Psyché, 1974, Color Photography
Photo: Françoise Masson
© The Estate of the Artist. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London | | | | | | | 29 October 2021 – 20 February 2022 | | | | With her spectacular actions, pushing her body to its bearable limit, Gina Pane (1939-1990) is considered as one of the most radical performance artists of the 1970s. She studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Influenced by the social upheavals and student protests in Paris in May 1968, she developed a performative oeuvre characterized by self-harm in the short spell between 1970 and 1978. Her "actions" targeted what she considered a devastatingly desolate political reality–evoking a so-called "anesthetized society". | | | | | | | | | Action Psyché, 1974, Color Photography
Photo: Françoise Masson
© The Estate of the Artist. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London | | | | | | The exhibition in the Francisco Carolinum shows Gina Panes "Action Psyché", which took place on January 12, 1974 at the Stadler Gallery in Paris, using 25 color photographs and 75 slides, documenting the course of the performance. These "Constats d’action" (action documents) were created in close collaboration with the photographer Françoise Masson and were arranged into tableaus after the action.
Gina Pane's work can be seen as an attempt to develop a new, powerful visual language focusing the body. With her painful performances she tried to reach out to her counterparts, hoping to relate to the subconscious and the collective memory of the human psyche, initiating a catharsis.
Curated by Michaela Seiser in collaboration with Richard Saltoun Gallery, London | | | | | | | | | Action Psyché, 1974, Color Photography
Photo: Françoise Masson
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