Geta Brtescu
Film und Video 1977-2018, Dt/engl
Wiederkehr, Lorenz / St Gallen, Kunstmuseum
Erschienen am
01.12.2021, Auflage: 1. Auflage
Beschreibung
Geta Brtescu (b. Ploieti, 1926; d. Bucharest, 2018) is now widely regarded as one of Eastern Europes most important avant-gardists. In the Western art world, however, she was largely obscure until her participation in documenta 14 in 2017 and the Venice Biennale of the same year. Questions of abstraction, the political potential of the image, and the subjective experience of self, memory, and history inform her stylistically diverse oeuvre in a wide range of media, which evolved under the repressive conditions of the Ceauescu regime yet kept pace with the discourses of the Western avant-gardes. This richly illustrated volume focuses on her collages and drawings as well as her works on film and video from the late 1970s until her death.