GEGO: MEASURING INFINITY. THE ARTIST'S RETROSPECTIVE AT JUMEX
The Museo Jumex inaugurates a retrospective of the work of Gertrud Goldschmit, better known as Gego. The exhibition traces her interdisciplinary artistic production in her journey through the disciplines of architecture, design, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, fabric, installations, public art and pedagogy.
Gego: Measuring Infinity includes more than 120 works in a variety of materials, spanning all periods in the development of the artist's practice. Varied and changing, Gego's work explores notions of space through watercolors, drawings, prints, paper weavings and sculptures. This shows Gego’s creative process and constant experimentation where the line is perceived as a generative element.
The exhibition follows the history of her interdisciplinary practice from her early drawings, public sculptures and installations, to her latest interwoven paper pieces. It highlights her drawing works to display to important it was to her production both on paper and space. Her parallel interests in printmaking, artists' books, poetry and graphic design, as well as pedagogy, are also focused on. The exhibition’s central space shows singular pieces emulating the artist’s own assemblages. Throughout, Gego's practice is marked by the ongoing exploration of how a structured material can become malleable with infinite possibilities for opening up form and space.
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Vistas de la exposición. Foto: Javier Hinojosa. Cortesía Jumex.
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Vistas de la exposición. Foto: Javier Hinojosa. Cortesía Jumex.
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Gego, ‘Dibujo sin papel 86/15’, 1986. La Colección Jumex, México. Cortesía Jumex.
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Gego, ‘12 círculos concéntricos’, 1957. Cortesía de Colección Fundación Gego, Caracas. Foto: José Luis Sanz. © Fundación Gego. Cortesía Jumex.
An architect and engineer trained at the Technische Hochschule in Stutt, Gego fled Nazi persecution in 1939 and emigrated to Venezuela, where she remained for the rest of her life. It was there that she became a key figure in the artistic movements that emerged in the second half of the 20th century, such as geometric abstraction and kinetic art in the 1950s and 1960s.
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