The late Romanian artist Geta Brătescu was a pioneer of line, colour and form—as a new exhibition at Hauser and Wirth, titled The Power of the Line, attests to. The show, which opens today, focuses on her late experiments in drawing, radical in their intuitive of understanding of seemingly simple shapes and forms as suggestive of gesture and movement. These drawings seem to dart around the page; as Brătescu once said, “When I draw, I can say that my hand dances.”
