Gego: Lines in Space
7 June - 7 July 2023
LGDR
19 East 64 Street
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939, having unknowingly missed the window to join her family in England after opting to stay behind to finish her architecture and engineering degree the year prior, Gertrud Goldschmidt seized the opportunity to obtain a work visa that happened to be for Venezuela—where she adopted the diminutive “Gego,” and would go on to become one of the most important figures of Venezuelan Abstraction.
In tandem with a major Gego retrospective currently on at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a tightly curated survey of works by Gego is now on view at LGDR’s new global flagship, featuring 40 works created between 1955 and 1990, including some directly from the artist’s estate and never-exhibited.
Highlighting an artist best known for straddling the line between drawing and sculpture with her “drawings without paper”—metal wire and rod compositions that appear to be floating, drawing on the artist’s formal training in architecture and engineering—the new show will place rare and historically significant sculptures in compelling dialogue with works on paper that provide foundational context for Gego’s radical approach to line and space across all media.
Gego: Lines in Space marks the first ground-floor single-artist presentation of LGDR’s new global flagship townhouse at 19 East 64 Street, which opened April 2023. The exhibition continues LGDR partner Dominique Lévy and LGDR senior partner Emilio Steinberger’s longtime relationship with Gego’s estate, having staged multiple exhibitions and two print runs of a comprehensive monograph.
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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of Gego: Lines in Space at LGDR, with the credit line “© Fundación Gego, courtesy of LGDR.”
