Gego. Line as Object
29 Mar - 29 Jun 2014
GEGO. LINE AS OBJECT
29 March - 29 June 2014
Gertrud Goldschmidt (1912–1994), known as Gego, is among the best-known artists of Latin America. From 1932 to 1938 she studied architecture at the Technical University in Stuttgart, after which she immigrated to Venezuela.
Influenced by her architectural training Gego became interested in the physical and social conditions of space. In her drawings and sculptural works the artist developed a modern concept of flowing space that exhibits both lightness and transparency. Gego focuses primarily on the medium of the line, and her works explore the creative relationship between space and line. For five decades she explored the idea of transforming the line into an object by using it to create planes, volumes, and elongated mesh structures. She always worked simultaneously on her drawings and sculptural works. The synthesis of her findings about the line and space are manifest in her »Dibujos sin Papel« (Drawings without Paper). She created these works out of materials such as wire, pieces of plastic, and leather sheaths, which she expertly assembled into seemingly weightless, lattice-like, hanging objects. The exhibition presents over one hundred works spanning the artist’s entire oeuvre.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
With support of the Cary and Dan-George Bronner Stiftung
29 March - 29 June 2014
Gertrud Goldschmidt (1912–1994), known as Gego, is among the best-known artists of Latin America. From 1932 to 1938 she studied architecture at the Technical University in Stuttgart, after which she immigrated to Venezuela.
Influenced by her architectural training Gego became interested in the physical and social conditions of space. In her drawings and sculptural works the artist developed a modern concept of flowing space that exhibits both lightness and transparency. Gego focuses primarily on the medium of the line, and her works explore the creative relationship between space and line. For five decades she explored the idea of transforming the line into an object by using it to create planes, volumes, and elongated mesh structures. She always worked simultaneously on her drawings and sculptural works. The synthesis of her findings about the line and space are manifest in her »Dibujos sin Papel« (Drawings without Paper). She created these works out of materials such as wire, pieces of plastic, and leather sheaths, which she expertly assembled into seemingly weightless, lattice-like, hanging objects. The exhibition presents over one hundred works spanning the artist’s entire oeuvre.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
With support of the Cary and Dan-George Bronner Stiftung