NYAB Event - Gego "Prints & Drawings 1963-1991"

Gego "Prints & Drawings 1963-1991"

Frederico Sève Gallery/latincollector

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The exhibition features thirteen prints and drawings that were completed by the German born, Venezuelan artist, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994), from 1963 to 1991, along with a book of lithographs dating back to 1966.

The exhibition features thirteen prints and drawings that were completed by the German born, Venezuelan artist, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994), from 1963 to 1991, along with a book of lithographs dating back to 1966.

The prints, drawings and book document a history of Gego’s involvement with prominent printmaking workshops in North America including Iowa State University; Pratt Institute, New York; and Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. The exhibition sheds light on how the artist’s graphic works bridge her early sculptures with her breakthrough “drawings without paper,” which reflects space as its own form. Gego’s influence is undeniable, although often overlooked by historical surveys. She is noted for her use of line as the subject itself, which resonates throughout her entire oeuvre. In a 2006 catalogue essay for "Between Transparency and the Invisible," exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, art curator and critic Robert Storr writes, “The novelty of her idea of drawing without paper cannot be overstated…while seeming at first glance to have removed only paper from the process of drawing, she also removed what in the context of gesturalism has been called the mind of the hand, thereby eliminating the gestural drawing’s implicit author and subject…the implications of which extend beyond sculpture per se into the realms of nature and science.”

[Image: Gego "Untitled" (1970) ink and silk-screen on paper. Courtesy of Frederico Sève Gallery.]

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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