“I was interested in the transparency of volume, so that a form could be appreciated fully from all angles of observation,” Gego noted. Working across architecture, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, Gego started in 1969 to focus on volume and the expansive properties of the line in space. Her suspended sculptures involved exercises in folding, deforming, and misaligning the grid’s orthogonal axes. By the 1980s, Gego’s three-dimensional assemblages included refuse as well as recycled fragments of other works. Registering movements in the air, these works are often described as “drawings in space.”

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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift, October 21, 2019–March 14, 2020

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By 1994 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Ciisneros.

Medium Stainless steel, nylon, copper and lead
Dimensions 33 7/8 × 22 1/16 × 20 7/8" (86 × 56 × 53 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in memory of Leopoldo Rodés
Object number 816.2016
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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