Groundbreaking Artists Geta Brătescu and Ion Grigorescu to Feature at the Independent Art Fair New York

Thanks to Bucharest-based Ivan Gallery, two of the most influential and revered Romanian artists of the last decades, Geta Brătescu and Ion Grigorescu, will be presented at the forthcoming Independent Art Fair in New York, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute. The Fair, an important fixture of the contemporary art calendar, takes place at Spring Studios in Lower Manhattan between May 5-8 and brings together 66 galleries from all over the world.  

“Independent remains the New York art fair whose edge most deserves to be called cutting, the one where you stand to learn the most about promising new art” - Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic of The New York Times

Geta Brătescu (b. 1926 - d. 2018) and Ion Grigorescu (b. 1945), though artists from different generations, are both regarded as pioneers of conceptualist practices in post-war, Communist Romania. Besides the mutual traits of their artistic…