Edited with introduction by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Pablo León de la Barra. Text by Mónica Amor, Ruth Auerbach, Tanya Barson, Vered Engelhard, Julieta González, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Pablo León de la Barra, Sean Nesselrode Moncada, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Michael Wellen.
Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense
Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego’s work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts the evolution of Gego’s singular approach to abstraction through organic forms, linear structures and systematic spatial investigations. Featuring nearly 300 images, including more than 160 sculptures, drawings, prints, artist’s books, textiles and installations made between the early 1950s and the early 1990s, this volume also presents 11 illustrated essays by experts in the field of modern and contemporary Latin American art that trace Gego’s artistic development across various mediums and disciplines, including her significant contributions to architecture and design; ground her practice in various art movements that materialized in Latin America, Europe and the US during her lifetime; and consider the pedagogical influence of her two-decade teaching career in Caracas. An illustrated chronology tracks Gego’s life and artistic progression as well as her exhibition history, contextualized within the rich cultural milieus in which she lived and worked. Also featured are images of Gego’s Reticulárea, an environmental installation widely considered to be her magnum opus, and a series of photographs taken by the artist’s partner at their shared home and studio in Caracas. Gego remains little known in the US today, despite her unique and striking formal and conceptual contributions. This essential publication advances an expanded understanding and appreciation of the artist’s work within the context of 20th-century modernism. Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912–94) came of age as an artist in the midst of Venezuela’s development as a modern state, emerging as a vital figure in Latin American modern art whose work intersected with major transnational art movements of the 20th century while remaining distinctly her own. Born in Hamburg and trained as an engineer and architect in Germany, Gego immigrated to Venezuela in 1939, fleeing Nazi persecution. In her new home of Caracas, she worked as an architect and a designer before embarking on her artistic career, which she pursued until her death in 1994.
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I can assure you that you will not see any contemporary works, by anyone, more stimulatingly inventive than these.
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Her fragile, precarious structures more closely resemble the organic world than the man-made: scrubland, underbrush, weeds, rhizomatic roots—that which endures, keeps growing and growing...Something like the measure of infinity.
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Featured spreads are from Gego: Measuring Infinity, the catalog to the Guggenheim Museum’s “five-star, five-story survey” (to quote The New York Times’ Holland Cotter) of the singular Venezuelan artist, designer and architect's work on view in the museum’s iconic rotunda. “Air, light, height, with a tingle of vertigo, are what the Guggenheim Museum’s spiraling rotunda is about,” Cotter writes. “Which makes it a near-ideal setting for the buoyant, lucent, constellational work of the German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt, who called herself Gego, and who made some of the most radically beautiful sculpture of the second half of the twentieth century.” Fittingly, the catalog is one of the most dynamic on our list this season, designed by VACA, the studio led by longtime Gego collaborator Álvaro Sotillo and partner Gabriela Fontanillas. As Gego herself said, Threads, weaving, everything is related somehow. continue to blog
Featured spreads are from Gego: Measuring Infinity, the catalog to the Guggenheim Museum’s “five-star, five-story survey” (to quote The New York Times’ Holland Cotter) of the singular Venezuelan artist, designer and architect's work on view in the museum’s iconic rotunda. “Air, light, height, with a tingle of vertigo, are what the Guggenheim Museum’s spiraling rotunda is about,” Cotter writes. “Which makes it a near-ideal setting for the buoyant, lucent, constellational work of the German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt, who called herself Gego, and who made some of the most radically beautiful sculpture of the second half of the twentieth century.” Fittingly, the catalog is one of the most dynamic on our list this season, designed by VACA, the studio led by longtime Gego collaborator Álvaro Sotillo and partner Gabriela Fontanillas. As Gego herself said, Threads, weaving, everything is related somehow. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 328 pgs / 215 color / 85 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $91 GBP £56.00 ISBN: 9780892075553 PUBLISHER: Guggenheim Museum Publications AVAILABLE: 5/2/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications. Edited with introduction by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Pablo León de la Barra. Text by Mónica Amor, Ruth Auerbach, Tanya Barson, Vered Engelhard, Julieta González, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Pablo León de la Barra, Sean Nesselrode Moncada, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Michael Wellen.
Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense
Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego’s work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts the evolution of Gego’s singular approach to abstraction through organic forms, linear structures and systematic spatial investigations. Featuring nearly 300 images, including more than 160 sculptures, drawings, prints, artist’s books, textiles and installations made between the early 1950s and the early 1990s, this volume also presents 11 illustrated essays by experts in the field of modern and contemporary Latin American art that trace Gego’s artistic development across various mediums and disciplines, including her significant contributions to architecture and design; ground her practice in various art movements that materialized in Latin America, Europe and the US during her lifetime; and consider the pedagogical influence of her two-decade teaching career in Caracas. An illustrated chronology tracks Gego’s life and artistic progression as well as her exhibition history, contextualized within the rich cultural milieus in which she lived and worked. Also featured are images of Gego’s Reticulárea, an environmental installation widely considered to be her magnum opus, and a series of photographs taken by the artist’s partner at their shared home and studio in Caracas. Gego remains little known in the US today, despite her unique and striking formal and conceptual contributions. This essential publication advances an expanded understanding and appreciation of the artist’s work within the context of 20th-century modernism.
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912–94) came of age as an artist in the midst of Venezuela’s development as a modern state, emerging as a vital figure in Latin American modern art whose work intersected with major transnational art movements of the 20th century while remaining distinctly her own. Born in Hamburg and trained as an engineer and architect in Germany, Gego immigrated to Venezuela in 1939, fleeing Nazi persecution. In her new home of Caracas, she worked as an architect and a designer before embarking on her artistic career, which she pursued until her death in 1994.
