Traveling with Gego

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.274.v2n26.53.2022

Keywords:

Gego, Manipulation, Preventive conservation, Itinerancy, Mailing

Abstract

This exhibition review about Gego: Measuring Infinity, set up in the Museo Jumex (Mexico), reflects on the world that unfolds behind it: how is the artwork prepared?, how does it get to be exhibited?, what is the journey that it takes before it is opened to the public? Thus, this review presents examples of conservatory manipulation and exhibition from two of the artworks by Gertrud Goldschmidt, Gego (Hamburg, 1912-Caracas, 1994). In general, she created her sculptures mainly by using lines, networks and gravitational meshes that intersect in the void and model spatial structures, whose fragility, together with the fact that they always require to be handled with very special care, make them difficult to move and to install. This fact is highlighted, due to its complex manipulation and installation, in Square Reticularea, formed by three elements. In contrast, the curative restoration is described for the Hexahedron Sphere, as well as the conservatory adaptation of the packaging of the work, which allows the exhibition to travel.

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Author Biographies

Alejandro Castro Julián, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), España

Higher degree in Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Assets, with a specialization in sculpture. Previously, he graduated from Management and Public Administration and completed a Postgraduate in Management of Institutions, Entities and Cultural Platforms. He obtained the Leonardo da Vinci international training scholarship, which allowed him to take a training residency in Italy. In 2006, he began his collaboration at Macba as a conservator-restorer specialized in sculpture. Currently, he coordinates new additions of artworks in the Museum and participates in the various temporary exhibitions and the Macba Collection, as well as in the conservation-restoration processes in three-dimensional works and modern materials in the collection.

Xavier Rossell, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), España

Higher degree in Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Assets, with a specialization in sculpture. Previously, he graduated from Management and Public Administration and completed a Postgraduate in Management of Institutions, Entities and Cultural Platforms. He obtained the Leonardo da Vinci international training scholarship, which allowed him to take a training residency in Italy. In 2006, he began his collaboration at Macba as a conservator-restorer specialized in sculpture. Currently, he coordinates new additions of artworks in the Museum and participates in the various temporary exhibitions and the Macba Collection, as well as in the conservation-restoration processes in three-dimensional works and modern materials in the collection.

References

Bois, Y.-A., Amor, M., Brett, G. y Peruga, I. (2006). Gego. Desafiando estructuras. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

González, J. y Peña, C. (2022). Gego: Midiendo el infinito. Ciudad de México, 19 de octubre de 2022-5 de febrero de 2023. [cuadernillo de exposición]. Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo. https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/ufl3vQ4R0CEBuA5YbGNG

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Published

2023-09-18

How to Cite

Castro Julián, A., & Rossell, X. (2023). Traveling with Gego. Intervención, 2(26), 200–221. https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.274.v2n26.53.2022

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 26 (2022): julio-diciembre

Section

Reseña de Exposición

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