Description
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.
Accession Number
237547
Medium
Inkless intaglio on cream wove paper, folded
Dimensions
56.8 × 26.1 cm (22 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Folded: 29.2 × 26.1 cm (11 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
Credit Line
Print and Drawing Club Fund