Readers in France still have time to make it to The Recontres d'Arles Bettina exhibit. Her work is on display until August 28.
The Rencontres d'Arles presents the first monographic exhibition of American artist Bettina Grossman, better known as Bettina. Bettina spent the first years of her career in Europe before returning to the United States in the 1960s. Shortly after, a traumatic fire destroyed much of her work. In 1970, she moved to the legendary Chelsea Hotel and, to recover from this loss, worked a lot. After years of producing in isolation, the artist was featured in two documentary films, which led her to meet Yto Barrada. In the tradition of artists supporting – and nurturing – the work of other artists, a strong relationship ensues, which culminates in multiple projects. L' exhibition at the Salle Henri-Comte offers a unique insight into Bettina's life in New York. Whether photography, video, painting, sculpture or textile design, his works are serial, modular and rigorous – each having a function in a larger and self-referential system, where we find forms repetitive geometric shapes with a transcendental and almost shamanic dimension.
Bettina, as you know, was part of the Chelsea Hotel artistic community until her death in 2021.
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