Untangling the Web
Gego's "Reticularea," An Anthology of Critical Response
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-300-16613-2 (ISBN)
Description
Gego (1912-1994) pioneered a new direction in art with her innovative sculptures of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Germany as Gertrud Goldschmidt, she fled the Nazi regime and moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where she absorbed modernist trends but ultimately forged her own artistic path. Exploring the concept of the line, space, and time, she linked pieces of metal to create weblike geometric forms, which she called "drawings in space." These experiments culminated in Reticularea, a massive netlike sculptural installation first presented at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, in 1969. This groundbreaking work had major repercussions in the art world and marked a turning point in Gego's career. Centered on the various iterations of this work and its artistic impact, this anthology brings together images as well as documentary materials and primary texts in English and Spanish by artists, writers, and Gego.
Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Fundacion Gego
Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Fundacion Gego
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Language
English
Spanish
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
50 color + 40 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm
Width: 254 mm
Weight
2282 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-16613-2 (9780300166132)
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Persons
Maria Elena Huizi is a poet, essayist, and art writer in Caracas, Venezuela. Ester Crespin is a scholar and curator involved with the Fundacion Gego in Caracas. Mari Carmen Ramirez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and the director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Melina Kervandjian is an art historian and editor.