Romanian distinguished artist Geta Bratescu takes part in The Economy of the Gift exhibition at A Foundation Liverpool. The show presents eight galleries and eight artists curated by Ticiana Correa, exploring the idea of value in a time of market crisis.
The Economy of the Gift has been designed to build on the cultural legacy of Liverpool's role as European Capital of Culture in 2008 and will be an annual affair.
Participating galleries are: Ivan Gallery (Bucharest), Andréhn-Schiptjenko (Stockholm), Bureau (Manchester), Ceri Hand Gallery (Liverpool), Freymond-Guth & Co Fine Arts (Zurich), The International 3 (Manchester), Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco and New York), Workplace Gallery (Gateshead).
Exhibiting artists: Geta Bratescu, Eric Bainbridge, Brass Art, Elodie Pong, Jacob Dahlgren, Mark Harasimowicz, Rebecca Lennon and Shaun O' Dell.
Geta Bratescu was born in 1926 in Ploiesti, being one of the most remarkable personalities of Romanian post-war avant-garde art. Along other artists of 1960s generation, she worked with object, installation and performance, with a focus on serialism, recurrence of patterns and clichés. Bratescu devoted herself to research on her body as an identity object specific for representation, being one of the few artists who studied the relation between the body and the intimate space; she aims constantly to dissipate the boundaries between the spaces of art and of everyday life. She lives and works in Bucharest.
The participation of Geta Bratescu and the Ivan Gallery in The Economy of the Gift is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
When: 8 April - 22 May 2010, Tue - Sat 12 - 6pm Where: The Blade Factory, A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 0BY Admission: is free.
