Dissolving planes into lines and treating lines as shapes in space, this sculpture explores, in the artist’s words, “the transparency of volume.” The sculpture depends on the viewer moving around it to generate the visual effect of vibration where the lines intersect. Having fled Germany at the beginning of World War II for Venezuela, Gego became a leading proponent of geometric abstraction in her adopted country, where she worked across painting, printmaking, and drawing, in addition to sculpture, to explore line on its own terms.
Gallery label from Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, April 19 – August 13, 2017.
