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Cover with colophon, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)

A work made of cover for set of prints, with handwritten colophon in yellow ink, folded and closed with yellow string.

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  • A work made of cover for set of prints, with handwritten colophon in yellow ink, folded and closed with yellow string.

Date:

1964

Artist:

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) (Venezuelan, born Germany, 1912–1994)
poetry by Alfredo Silva Estrada (Venezuelan, 1933-2009)

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

Title

Cover with colophon, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)

Place

Venezuela (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1964

Medium

Cover for set of prints, with handwritten colophon in yellow ink, folded and closed with yellow string

Dimensions

Book, closed: 31.3 × 29.5 × 2.1 cm (12 3/8 × 11 5/8 × 7/8 in.); Book, open: 62.3 × 29.5 × 1.9 cm (24 9/16 × 11 5/8 × 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Print and Drawing Club Fund

Reference Number

1967.270.1

Extended information about this artwork

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