Dissolving planes into lines and treating lines as shapes in space, this sculpture explores, in the artist's words, "the transparency of volume." The sculpture depends on the viewer moving around it to generate the visual effect of vibration where the lines intersect. Having fled Germany at the beginning of World War II for Venezuela, Gego became a leading proponent of geometric abstraction in her adopted country, where she worked across painting, printmaking, and drawing, in addition to sculpture, to explore line on its own terms.

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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, April 19 - August 13, 2017

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2000 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Sonia Rojas, Caracas.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Medium Painted iron
Dimensions 66 15/16 × 25 3/16 × 15 3/4" (170 × 64 × 40 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Gustavo Rodríguez-Cisneros
Object number 813.2016
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

Venezuelan, born Germany. 1912–1994 74 works online

###Leer en español Figura emblemática de la abstracción en las décadas de 1960 y 1970 en Venezuela, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) nació en 1912 en Hamburgo, Alemania, y en 1938 se graduó en ingeniería y arquitectura en la Universidad de Stuttgart.

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