19/08/14
Gego: Line as Object
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
24 July – 19 October 2014
“Here we’ve only got one job,”
explains Lisa Le Feuvre, head of the Henry Moore Institute. “And that’s to write
the future of art history with sculpture at the centre. And I want Gego right
at that centre.”
Gego (1912-94) was born Gertrud
Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, but she emigrated to Caracas, Venezuela in
1939, immediately after graduating from a degree in architecture and
engineering in Stuttgart. There, she became an artist, and spent the rest of
her life, quite simply, “taking a line for a walk”.
“There is no danger for me to get stuck,” she wrote
in 1966, “because with each line I draw, hundreds more wait to be drawn. That
is the circle of knowledge with the ring around, you enlarge the inner circle
and the outer becomes greater – no end.”
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