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"... GeGo: Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, a documentary about the German Jew who, after going into exile during the war, became one of Latin America's most prominent artists.
... studied architecture in Stuttgart in the 1930s. A German Jew, she fled Germany in 1939 and went into exile in Caracas, where she first designed furniture and lamps, then worked as an architect and taught at various universities. She was over 40 when she began making art. Her delicate suspended compositions create a new sculptural language that showcased the line. With her vision, her career path and her teaching, GeGo profoundly marked Venezuelan art and was one of Latin America’s major artists from 1950 to 1990.
(http://www.thecoreclub.com/cultural-programming/event/1433)
Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 Aug. 1912 – 17 Sept. 1994) also known as Gego; modern Venezuelan artist and sculptor. Her most popular works were produced in the 1960s and 1970s, during the height of popularity of Geometric abstract art and Kinetic Art. Although these genres influenced her somewhat, Gego tried to develop her own style and break from the popular art of Venezuela. Her artwork is commonly exhibited with artists like Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica and Mira Schendel. Dying in 1994, she left a collection of writings describing her thoughts about art which adds to her legacy as a Latin American artist." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gego
...Gego used lines as conceptual and visual tools to create in-between spaces within her works. Whether drawing lines on paper or projecting them into space, the artist sought to “make visible the invisible.” She believed that line could express what is not physically present in nature––including thought, intuition, and emotions. By manipulating the density of the lines or by interrupting them, she brought light, shadow, and feeling into her linear works.
(http://sheilablablabla.blogspot.nl/2009/03/gegoi-love-gertrude-goldsmith.html) undefined