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Gego: Defying Structures (Cadaques Gallery) 08/11/2006 - 14/01/2007

Little is known in Europe about the German-born ‘Gego’, who emigrated to Venezuela at the outbreak of the Second World War and went on to become one of the most important South American artists of the second half of the 20th Century. She is often cited as an equal peer of the more widely known Lygia Clark and Mira Schendel.

Interestingly her career seems to have been evolved from the most abstract realms towards something more mundane and everyday and this exhibition reflects that evolution.

The most instantly recognisable of her works is ‘Reticularea’ (1969). It is a huge geometrics structure of lines suspended in space and connecting to each other via wire joints. A characteristic feature of Gego’s work is to give shape and form to the empty space between lines and it is in this piece which experts consider best exploits that goal. On view are several drawings, which show the development of her ideas.

Later on comes ‘Chorros’ (1970), a random chaos of vertical lines falling out of space and ‘Troncos’ (1974), concerned with triangular geometry in which Gego seems to be returning to rest her feet on the ground after her abstract exhortations.

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