Title & Author:

Gego : the architecture of an artist / edited by Ulrike Groos, Philip Kurz, Stefanie Reisinger, and Kerstin Thomas.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2022]
©2022

Description:

219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Gego. The architecture of an artist, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 19 February - 10 July 2022."--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Forward / Ulrike Groos, Philip Kurz, Kerstin Thomas -- Gego. The Architecture of an Artist / Stefanie Reisinger-- Gego's Sense of the Elsewhere / Maristella Casciato-- Gego in Caracas / Hannia Ǵomez -- Gertrude Goldschmidt inter artes- Sonia Sanoja's Dance Performance Cuerdas, simple medida (Coreogego) / Sabine Mainberger -- Gego's Curriculum (1932-1938) / Stefanie Resinger -- Two Sides of the Same Coin. The TH Stuttgart and the Bauhaus -- Stroke-Harching-Parallel Lines -- "Taller Gego."

Summary:

The artist Gego studied architecture and engineering at the TH Stuttgart (Institute of Technology) from 1932 to 1938, before she was forced to emigrate to Venezuela because of her Jewish roots. In 1956, when she began working as an artist, she wrote to her former professor Paul Bonatz: "Even though I may have been lost to architecture and was unable to master life through it, it has shaped me, certainly to some extent. Even unhappy loves are of great value and have their effect." A few years later, MoMA in New York purchased its first piece by the artist. Today, Gego is one of the best-known artists in Latin America. Conceptual as well as practical considerations of architecture and space-forming processes have always remained at the heart of her artistic exploration. Her method of design has been influenced, above all, by material, technical, aesthetic, and urbanistic questions. This book is published in conjunction with the exhibit Gego. The Architecture of an Artist, which presents a permanent loan of 100 works from the Fundación Gego at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart with a special focus on the artist's graphic work. -- Cover.

ISBN:

9783959055628
3959055625

Subject:

Gego Exhibitions.
Gego
Drawing, Venezuelan
Art, Venezuelan

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gego.
Groos, Ulrike, editor.
Kurz, Philip, editor.
Reisinger, Stefanie, editor.
Thomas, Kerstin, editor.
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318445
Call No.: 318445
Copy: 1
Status: Available