Speaker:

• Mónica Amor, Assistant Professor of Art History, Maryland Institute College of Art

Presentation:

• "Weaving the Space In-Between"

"Gego at One Hundred Years" brings together a select group of art historians, cultural critics, and curators to explore the historical relevance of Gego's art at the centenary of her birth. What is the relationship between Gego's early kinetic sculpture and the widely held belief in technological progress that in Venezuela was fueled by the oil and construction boom of 1950s and 60s? How did the context affect her decision to become a practicing artist? More broadly, what is the nature of the relationship between Gego's early training in architecture and engineering and the constructivist-based sculpture (e.g., the series of Reticuláreas) that she later went on to develop? And to what extent did her unique position as a European woman émigré of Jewish descent affect her artistic production in Venezuela? This symposium explores these and other issues in order to assess the historical importance of Gego's art as well as the degree to which it continues to resonate in the present.

Speaker:

• Nuit Banai, Professor, Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University

Presentation:

• "Gego Against the Grain: A Triangulated Modernism, a Subject in Exile"

"Gego at One Hundred Years" brings together a select group of art historians, cultural critics, and curators to explore the historical relevance of Gego's art at the centenary of her birth. What is the relationship between Gego's early kinetic sculpture and the widely held belief in technological progress that in Venezuela was fueled by the oil and construction boom of 1950s and 60s? How did the context affect her decision to become a practicing artist? More broadly, what is the nature of the relationship between Gego's early training in architecture and engineering and the constructivist-based sculpture (e.g., the series of Reticuláreas) that she later went on to develop? And to what extent did her unique position as a European woman émigré of Jewish descent affect her artistic production in Venezuela? This symposium explores these and other issues in order to assess the historical importance of Gego's art as well as the degree to which it continues to resonate in the present.

Speaker:

• Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University

Presentation:

• "Notes Toward an Interpretation of Gego's Sabiduras"

"Gego at One Hundred Years" brings together a select group of art historians, cultural critics, and curators to explore the historical relevance of Gego's art at the centenary of her birth. What is the relationship between Gego's early kinetic sculpture and the widely held belief in technological progress that in Venezuela was fueled by the oil and construction boom of 1950s and 60s? How did the context affect her decision to become a practicing artist? More broadly, what is the nature of the relationship between Gego's early training in architecture and engineering and the constructivist-based sculpture (e.g., the series of Reticuláreas) that she later went on to develop? And to what extent did her unique position as a European woman émigré of Jewish descent affect her artistic production in Venezuela? This symposium explores these and other issues in order to assess the historical importance of Gego's art as well as the degree to which it continues to resonate in the present.

Speaker:

• Hannia Gómez, President, Fundacion de la Memoria Urbana, Founder and Vice President of Docomomo Venezuela, and former Curator of Gio Ponti’s Villa Planchart

Presentation:

• "An Endless Architecture"

"Gego at One Hundred Years" brings together a select group of art historians, cultural critics, and curators to explore the historical relevance of Gego's art at the centenary of her birth. What is the relationship between Gego's early kinetic sculpture and the widely held belief in technological progress that in Venezuela was fueled by the oil and construction boom of 1950s and 60s? How did the context affect her decision to become a practicing artist? More broadly, what is the nature of the relationship between Gego's early training in architecture and engineering and the constructivist-based sculpture (e.g., the series of Reticuláreas) that she later went on to develop? And to what extent did her unique position as a European woman émigré of Jewish descent affect her artistic production in Venezuela? This symposium explores these and other issues in order to assess the historical importance of Gego's art as well as the degree to which it continues to resonate in the present.

CNN en Español reseña la muestra Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space en homenaje al centenario de la artista venezolana Gertrud Goldschmidt, que se presenta en Americas Society hasta el 8 de diciembre. 

La Directora de Artes Visuales de Americas Society, Gabriela Rangel, destaca el lenguaje abstracto de la artista venezolana Gertrud Goldschmidt conocida como Gego cuyas obras se muestran en la galería de arte de Americas Society hasta el 8 de diciembre.  La exposición presenta una muestra de 50 obras compuestas por pinturas, dibujos, estructuras geométricas, planos, y manuscritos representativos del período "Tarmas," pueblo litoral de Venezuela en donde Goldschmidt desarrolló su obra. Rangel además reitera que la artista expuso por primera vez en Nueva York su obra magistral Reticuláreas en 1969 en Americas Society.