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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)
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Title
- Cover with colophon, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)
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Place
- Venezuela (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1964
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Medium
- Cover for set of prints, with handwritten colophon in yellow ink, folded and closed with yellow string
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Print and Drawing Club Fund
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Reference Number
- 1967.270.1
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