Gego Foundation ,

Germany 2013, 54 min
by Nathalie David (PITCHOUN PRODUCTION)

GEGO, Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (b. 1912 in Hamburg, d. 1994 in Caracas) was one of the leading artists of her generation in Latin America, known above all for her large-scale spatial installations. She regarded her works not as sculptures, but as structures or drawings in space. Gego studied Architecture under Paul Bonatz at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical College in Stuttgart from 1932 to 1938. Gego's training and practice as an architect had a major influence on her art, in that