CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/4/2023

Definitive 'Gego: Measuring Infinity' opens at the Guggenheim

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.