Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible (Houston Museum of Fine Arts) (Houston Museum of Fine Arts S.)

Ramirez, Mari Carmen

ISBN 10: 0300116349 / ISBN 13: 9780300116342

Published by Yale University Press & Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston & New haven, 2006

About this Item

Qto., 256 pages, illustrated. The text is in both English and Spanish. A Fine crisp copy, certainly unused.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible (Houston Museum of Fine Arts) (Houston Museum of Fine Arts S.)
• Publisher: Yale University Press & Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston & New haven
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300116349
• ISBN 13: 9780300116342
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) produced a wide range of line-based abstract work, including drawings, prints, and wire sculptures. Focusing on a rare series of monotypes from the early 1950s, various drawings and prints, and her delicate 'drawings without paper' and 'tejeduras' (woven paper pieces) of the late 1970s and 1980s, this fascinating book traces Gego's exploration of line and space. Gego used lines as conceptual and visual tools to create in-between spaces within her works. Whether drawing lines on paper or projecting them into space, the artist sought to 'make visible the invisible'. She believed that line could express what is not physically present in nature - including thought, intuition, and emotions. By manipulating the density of the lines or by interrupting them, she brought light, shadow, and feeling into her linear works. With sumptuous illustrations that reveal the poeticism of her geometric forms and her masterful and innovative manipulation of space, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on Gego and Latin American modern art.

About the Author

Mari Carmen Ramirez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.