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"Es dificil negar que Gego nació en Venezuela..." = "É difícil negar que Gego nasceu na Venezuela..."
1996In this essay, Roberto Guevara gives an overview of Gego’s career, [based on a selection of works that are] on display at the São Paulo Biennial. Guevara describes how Gego’s work has evolved from her early sculptures in the 1950s to her latest [...]ICAA Record ID: 1149603 -
"Mis obras son un trabajo abstracto muy planificado..."
1985In this essay, Eugenio Espinoza analyzes Dibujos sin papel [Drawings Without Paper], a series of works by Gego, a Venezuelan artist of German origin. Espinoza focuses on the works from that series created in 1985 as he explores the way Gego goes [...]ICAA Record ID: 854691 -
[Gertrudis Goldschmidt, Gego, figura del arte contemporáneo ... = Gertrudis Goldschmidt, Gego, figura do arte contemporaneo...]
1996With this text, Mariela Avellaneda de Luna officially presents Gego at the twenty-third São Paulo Biennial. Avellaneda points out the importance of the line in Gego’s large structures, such as the versions of Reticulárea, emphasizing the way the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1149565 -
[La obra de Gego...]
1984Critic Mariana Figarella analyzes the series of Dibujos sin papel [Drawings Without Paper] that Gego, a Venezuelan artist of German origin, produced between 1976 and 1984. Figarella discusses the “ambiguity” of these works and the subsequent [...]ICAA Record ID: 854672 -
[Relaciones de lineas creadas...]
In this manuscript, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego shares her thoughts about the line, denying that it originates in the sensory field or the knowledge field [...]ICAA Record ID: 855429 -
[The line as a human mean to express...]
The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego briefly explains some of her thoughts on the meaning and use of the line. In her view the human idea of “a line” is abstract, since it does not exist in nature. But as a medium it can express descriptive [...]ICAA Record ID: 855370 -
[You invited me for this meeting...]
1987In this speech to her companions at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Gego describes the basic tenets of her work and outlines the projects she plans to present. She explains how her use of line has evolved over the course of time, from her early [...]ICAA Record ID: 854807 -
Gego : desafiando estructuras
1996In this article, Venezuelan critic and professor Mónica Amor refutes the constructivist and organicist approach that has been used to understand Gego’s work. That approach, she claims, does not address the way Gego’s production undermines [ [...]ICAA Record ID: 1156347 -
Gego : entre la estructura y el objeto
1988In this essay, Ruth Auerbach discusses Bichos [Creatures]—the three-dimensional works by Venezuelan artist Gego—within the overall context of her production. After providing an overview of Gego’s art, Auerbach states that these works are [...]ICAA Record ID: 850872 -
Gego : exaltación de la línea
1967In this essay, Colombian critic and journalist Álvaro Burgos analyzes the sculptures by Gego, a Venezuelan artist of German origin, included in the exhibition Gego: Esculturas, 1957–1967, held in Colombia. Burgos asserts that Gego’s works form [...]ICAA Record ID: 1156363 -
Gego : tejer el tiempo : la obra como acontecimiento
2009Lorena González sees similarities between works by Gego and those by the Venezuelan writer Antonia Palacios, in that they are both based on a noticeable sense of temporality. According to González, “the line”—the fundamental element in Gego [...]ICAA Record ID: 1150137 -
Gego : trazas de trazos = Gego´s traces of traces
2006This analysis by Catherine de Zegher focuses on Gego’s drawing in space. After an introduction in which she describes earlier works by important artists that engage the notion of drawing in space, as well as those by Gego’s contemporaries, de [...]ICAA Record ID: 1149528 -
Gego y la escena analítica del cinetismo
2000Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas believed that as a foreigner in Venezuela, Gego gave her work the function of an “analytical process” by constructing a “neutral space” in a time saturated by Kinetic art and geometric abstraction. Her work resists [...]ICAA Record ID: 1159736 -
Gego, la luz cernida dulcemente
1994Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas considers Gego the most important artist in Venezuelan modern art. In his opinion, her work broke through the conventional limits and was situated at the margin of the national art scene as “a work of critical importance [...]ICAA Record ID: 1159768 -
La línea que se fue de paseo
2000In this review, Josefina Núñez refers to Gego’s training and development as a graphic artist, and discusses her technical and creative approach to printing and lithography. Núñez takes a long look at Gego’s art based on her unique use of line [...]ICAA Record ID: 1156752 -
Los trabajos de Gego
1964Elízabeth Schön describes the works of Gego from a poetic perspective. Regarding the artist’s drawings, Schön emphasizes the spareness of the forms generated by unrestricted freedom, art created for the sole purpose of demarcating spaces. The [...]ICAA Record ID: 1160039 -
Organismo vivo : el mundo gráfico de Gego
1996Eliseo Sierra analyzes the sources and characteristics of Gego’s graphic discourse (drawings, prints, watercolors, and weavings). Sierra finds that the artist’s work resists classification and is substantially different from the masterworks of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1155322 -
Part III : Statement/ for the book...
1970These are Gego’s answers to questions about the origins and nature of her work. She explains that her art is based on the line, which is the focal point of her work and the inspiration for its structural development. Her use of line was also [...]ICAA Record ID: 854729 -
Re-aligning vision : alternative currents in South American Drawing
1997Mari Carmen Ramírez and the North American curator Edith A. Gibson curated Re-Aligning Vision. Alternative Currents in South American Drawing, the exhibition which was organized by the Archer Huntington Gallery in Austin, Texas. Gibson writes about [...]ICAA Record ID: 1167028 -
Serie : miradas al carbón (10/20)
1998Sandra Pinardi describes the qualities of line and drawing in Gego’s work. In the critic’s opinion, by virtue of the multiple directions in which it heads, Gego’s “immaterial line” reveals a dense and plural space. Thus, the drawing becomes [...]ICAA Record ID: 1159832