Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is delighted to announce the opening of Gego. The Architecture of an Artist at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, February 19, 2022. The exhibition highlights Gego's years as a student in Stuttgart and includes works on long-term loan to the museum from Fundación Gego in Caracas. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue are part of a three-year collaborative research project between Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the University of Stuttgart, the Wüstenrot Stiftung, and Fundación Gego.
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) [1912-1994, Germany - Venezuela] worked as a draftsman while completing a degree in architecture from the University of Stuttgart in 1938. To escape the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany, she emigrated to Venezuela in 1939 and worked as a freelance architect and industrial designer until the mid-1940s. In 1953, she began her artistic work, producing figurative and expressionist drawings, watercolors, and prints. Returning to Caracas in 1956, Gego began...to address problems of sculptural space, using pure abstraction as her starting point. Along with Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alejandro Otero, and Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego participated in the exhibition Arte abstracto en Venezuela. She moved to New York in 1960 and remained in the U.S. until 1967, and had her first solo show at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas in 1961.
Gego taught at the school of architecture of the Universidad Central de Venezuela and at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas. She helped found the Instituto de Diseño Neumann in Caracas where she taught from 1964 to 1977. In 1969, with Gerd Leufert, she completed murals for the headquarters of the Instituto Nacional de Cooperación Educativa (INCE). From the 1970s to the 1980s, she completed important, architecturally-integrated sculpture for public buildings, residences, and shopping malls. In her later work, Gego used materials such as industrial scraps and metals. She is known for her series Dibujos sin papel (Drawings without Paper), Bichos (Creatures), and Reticulárea ambiental from the 1980s, as well as Tejeduras (Weavings) from the 1990s, in which small fields of orthogonal lines were interwoven with strips of paper.
Gego's work is included in the permanent collections of public institutions worldwide, including Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TX, USA; Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York City, NY, USA; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA; New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA; Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, NY, USA; Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, Switzerland; Tate Modern Collection. London, UK; Colección Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; and CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA, among others.
Entrada actualizada el el 22 mar de 2022
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