Plate four, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)

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.

Plate four, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

1964

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

print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Print and Drawing Club Fund