Gego

(Venezuelan, 1912–1994)

dibujo sin papel 86.12 by gego

Gego

Dibujo sin papel 86.12, 1986

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Biography

Timeline

1912
Born in Hamburg, Germany
1938
Studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart
1952
Received Venezuelan Citizenship
1958
Taught: School of Place
1962
Created design for the headquarters of the Banco Industrial de Venezuela in Caracas
Won the First Prize in Drawing, Fourth National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
1968
Won the National Prize in Drawing, 19th Annual Official Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1976
Won the Acquisition Prize, Salón la artes Plásticas en Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1979
Won the National Visual Arts Prize, Venezuela
1980
Awarded Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Venezuela
1994
Died in Venezuela

Exhibitions

2010
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Geometric Illusion, Frederico Seve Gallery, Latincollector, New York, NY
Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2009
North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Sites of Latin American Abstraction, Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Chiharu Shiota/GEGO, Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY
1969, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Ruth Asawa and Artes Latinos, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Line is a Sign, Frederico Seve Gallery - Latincollector, New York, NY
Tiempo como materia, Collección MACBA, Nuevas incorporaciones, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Explorando el sur – El universalismo constructivo y otras tendencias en América Latina, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
2008
Peripheral vision and collective body, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
El círculo, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2007
Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible, The Drawing Center, New York, April 21-July 21 (solo)
Description and image - Tamaño Real, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 - 2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
La Presencia - The Presence of Latin American Art in California Collections, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2006
Estrecho Dudoso, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, CA
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Bienal del Aire, Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Marked Pages - Exhibition of Drawings, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Feeling the Line, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Webs, Loops and Skeins in Modern Contemporary Art, The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Cruz-Diez, Gego, Maggi, Soto & Tomasello; Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 26-September 25 (solo)
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
A contra corriente - Mira Schendel, Gego y Lygia Pape, Fundación ARS TEOR/éTica, San Jose, CA
Brought to Light: Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Parallel Stories: Venezuelan & Brazilian Abstract Constructive Art, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s-70s; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Arte y utopía - La acción restringida, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
MoMA at El Museo. Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Museo, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2002 - 2003
Questioning the Line: Gego, a Selection, 1955-1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (solo)
Ruth Vollmer and Gego: Thinking the Line, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Geo-metrías - Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2000 - 2001
Gego: 1955-1990, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas October-March (solo)
Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art in the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Fogg Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2000
Force Field: Phases of the Kinetic, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Versiones del Sur, Heterotropías: Medio siglo sin lugar, 1916 - 1968, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Raumkörper - Netze und andere Gebilde, Art Basel, Switzerland