HUNDACION MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES Gego born Gertrud Goldschmidt.HUNDACION MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES Gego born Gertrud Goldschmidt, fled Germany for southern America in 1939 and became engaged, alongside other artists onward that continent, in reinventing the Constructivist legacy in the '50 Armed with grades in architecture and engineering, she casted her attention to sculpture in a series of radical experiments that bring to mind the post-Minimalist work of Robert Morris and Eva Hesse. Gego's mature production, based forward meshes and cascades of metal irregularly distributed in space, defies conventional approaches to the art design Curated by the museum's be in possession of Iris Peruga, this giant measure and estimate brings together almost 400 works, including drawings, prints, watercolors, and sculpture--a timely homage to Venezuela's greatest postwar artist. Oct 22 2000-Mar. 25 2001 COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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