Join curators Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Pablo León de la Barra as they discuss Gego’s artistic legacy.

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Pablo León de la Barra: This is the first major retrospective in New York of Gego’s work, so we’re very proud to be doing this at the Guggenheim. I am Pablo Leon de la Barra. I’m Curator at Large for Latin America at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães: I’m Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, and I’m Associate Curator here at the museum in New York and in Bilbao. And I focus on Latin American art.

Pablo León de la Barra: It’s part of our major mission of giving exhibitions to overlooked figures that were of major importance to our understanding of modernism, and especially female artists.

Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães: This exhibition is a major retrospective of the works by German Venezuelan artist Gego, also known as Gertrud Goldschmidt. This exhibition showcases four decades of her artistic production, from the 1950s to the 1990s, and it occupies almost our entire museum. And we are exhibiting works from a lot of her series as well as a variety of medium: drawings, prints, sculptures, textiles, artist books, and so on.

Pablo León de la Barra: After Gego’s death in 1994, her son, Tomás, and her daughter, Barbara, got together and founded Fundación Gego. Fundación Gego has been seminal in making available Gego’s work and knowledge to a wider public, in conserving her legacy, and in transmitting her knowledge.

Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães: Their archives was really an important aspect of our research into this exhibition, because we were able to see original letters architectural drawings, or even understand the amount of work that Gego produced in her lifetime.

Pablo León de la Barra: And it’s partly through this labor of love that we have these works available for a wider public to learn from Gego’s work but also for Gego’s work to continue to be alive, no?

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