Geta Brătescu review – the woman who made lines dance

Hauser & Wirth, London
Her captivating line drawings from the final decade of a 70-year career reveal the late Romanian conceptual artist’s power, playfulness – and patience

Geta Brătescu sits at her desk clutching a chunky black marker pen in her heavily wrinkled hand. “Let’s see what I’m doing now,” she says, the square nib traversing the paper in one long continuous line, straight and curved. She pauses: “I’m not sure what came out.” A moment passes and she adds two dots – beady eyes. “The man and the donkey.”

This filmed cameo of the artist at work appears in The Power of the Line, a solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London. Brătescu collaborated with the gallery on the exhibition before she died last year, aged 92. The collages and line drawings on show were made during the final decade of her life, when she focused on creating simple geometric forms – both sharply angular and gently curved – based on the line.

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