GEGO’S EXHIBITION AT GUGGENHEIM, NEW YORK
Gego: Measuring Infinity at Guggenheim is the first major museum retrospective of the artist work to be presented in the United States since 2005. It offers a fully integrated view of the influential German-Venezuelan artist and her distinctive approach to the language of abstraction.
The exhibition features nearly 200 works from the early 1950s through the early 1990s, including sculptures, drawings, prints, textiles, and artist’s books, alongside photographic images of installations and public works, sketches, publications, and letters.
Gego is one of the most significant artists to emerge from Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century, yet her work remains lesser known in the United States. Examining the formal and conceptual contributions she made through her organic forms, linear structures, and systematic spatial investigations, Gego: Measuring Infinity grounds Gego’s practice in the artistic contexts of Latin America that flourished over the course of her lengthy career, considering the artist’s intersections with—and departures from—key transnational art movements such as geometric abstraction and Kinetic art. Gego put forth radical ideas through her intensive investigations of structural systems: transparency, tension, fragility, spatial relations, and the optical effects of motion are all methodically addressed in her singular body of work. Tracing a markedly individual artistic path, Gego defied categorization. This long-overdue retrospective builds upon the Guggenheim Museum’s legacy of presenting groundbreaking modern and contemporary solo survey exhibitions in a global context that champion nonobjective art.
Gego: Measuring Infinity is cocurated by Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York.
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Installation view, Gego: Measuring Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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Installation view, Gego: Measuring Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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Installation view, Gego: Measuring Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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Installation view, Gego: Measuring Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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Installation view, Gego: Measuring Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), 12 círculos concéntricos (12 Concentric Circles), 1957. Aluminum and paint. Private collection. © Fundación Gego. Photo: Tasnadi, courtesy Archivo Fundación Gego.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Cuatro planos rojos (Four Red Planes), 1967. Iron and paint. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. © Fundación Gego. Photo: Courtesy Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Sin título (Untitled), 1966. Felt-tip pen on paper. Colección Fundación Gego, Caracas. © Fundación Gego. Photo: Carlos Germán Rojas, courtesy Archivo Fundación Gego.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Esfera no 4 (Sphere No. 4), 1976. Steel and copper. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami. © Fundación Gego. Photo: Oriol Tarridas, courtesy CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Sin título (Untitled), 1980. Watercolor and graphite on paper. Fundación Gego Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. © Fundación Gego. Photo: Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Bicho 87/9(Bug 87/9), 1987. Iron and paint. MACBA Collection, MACBA Consortium, Long-term loan of Fundación Gego. © Fundación Gego. Photo: FotoGasull, courtesy Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA.
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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Tejedura 88/8 (Weaving 88/8), 1988. Card and acetate. MACBA Collection, MACBA Consortium, Long-term loan of Fundación Gego. © Fundación Gego. Photo: FotoGasull, courtesy Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA.
Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), first trained as an architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart). Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, she immigrated to Venezuela, where she settled permanently, fully embarking on an artistic career in the 1950s that would span more than four decades. In two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of mediums, Gego explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her practice in the related fields of architecture, design, and teaching complemented those investigations.
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