Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space
Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space
The Village Voice surveys the life of acclaimed artist Gertrud Goldschmidt, widely known as Gego, whose three-dimensional works are exhibited at the Americas Society in New York.
For Gertrud Goldschmidt, the artist who adopted the sobriquet of Gego, there was nothing more expressive than the ordinary line. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 for Venezuela, she began a career in architecture, but, in her forties, found herself attracted to the avant-garde. For the next 30 years, briskly surveyed here, she explored the beauty of grids, arcs, and various geometric configurations—a fascination captured by her charming 1964 Autobiography of a Line, a small foldout panel displaying the progress of a squiggle....
