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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)1964
- Attribution
- Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) (Venezuelan, born Germany, 1912–1994) poetry by Alfredo Silva Estrada (Venezuelan, 1933-2009)
- Medium
- Inkless intaglio on cream wove paper, folded
- Physical dimensions
- 56.9 × 26.4 cm (22 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Folded: 28.9 × 26.4 cm (11 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Print and Drawing Club Fund
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Throughout her career, Gego produced work that located meaning in oppositions: symmetry and asymmetry, stasis and dynamism, light and shadow, visibility and invisibility. These inkless intaglio prints, sheets of paper embossed without pigment to produce barely discernible impressions, resulted from a brief collaboration between the artist and the poet Alfredo Silva Estrada. The imagery Estrada conjures in the poem—shadows, movement, light, and rhythm—are also at the core of Gego’s practice.
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