Dominique Lévy is pleased to present “Gego: Autobiography of a Line“, the first in a pair of exhibitions in New York and London celebrating the legacy of German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt [1912 – 1994]).
In Gego’s intricate wire sculpture, line becomes a newly dimensional language with which to describe architectural space and engage the human body. Her practice is defined by radical abstraction, giving deeper narrative to forms both graceful and monstrous.
The first gallery exhibition ever organized in collaboration with Fundación Gego and the family of the artist, “Autobiography of a Line” reunites artist’s celebrated Chorros for the first time in New York City since their debut at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1971.
This group of towering wire sculptures, created between 1970-71, embodies the palpable sense of entropic geometry and spatial play for which artist’s œuvre is internationally admired.
Also on view will be late sculptures from the artist’s series of Dibujos sin papel (Drawings without Paper); small-scale Bichitos (Creatures); and works on paper that complicate and question the relationship between drawing and sculpture such as the Tejeduras (Weavings) and other series created during her long career.
Reticulárea, 1969. Courtesy of PG / AFG
Reticulárea, 1975. Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dibujo sin papel 79/2, 1979. Courtesy of Consorcio MACBA, Fundación Gego
Sphere, 1976. Courtesy of Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Fundación Gego
Dibujo sin papel 89/5, 1989. Courtesy of Consorcio MACBA, Fundación Gego
Gego: Autobiography of a Line
10.09.2015 – 24.10.2015
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