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Gego. Measuring Infinity

Introductory Artist Conversation

Gego: Measuring Infinity

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Seguros Bilbao - Seremos Occidente

Early Works (1951–55)

Parallel Lines (1957–67)

Tamarind Lithography Workshop and reticular studies (1963–70)

Chorros, Troncos, Esferas and Other Reticular Typologies (1969-88)

Textiles (1956–88)

Dibujos sin papel (ca. 1976–88)

Last Works: Tejeduras, Bichos and Bichitos (1987–91)

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Gego. Measuring Infinity, a major retrospective offering a fully integrated view of the work by German-Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), also known as Gego, and her distinctive approach to the language of abstraction. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the exhibition examines the artist’s formal and conceptual contributions through her organic forms, linear structures, and modular abstractions.
Nearly 150 works from the early 1950s through the early 1990s are featured including sculptures, drawings, prints, textiles, and artist’s books, alongside photographic images of installations and public artworks, sketches, publications, and letters. Situating Gego’s practice in the artistic contexts of Latin America that transpired over the course of her lengthy career, the survey also considers her intersections with—and departures from—key transnational art movements such as Geometric Abstraction and Kinetic Art.
Born into a German Jewish family, Gego first trained as an architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart). Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, she immigrated to Venezuela, where she settled permanently, and in 1953 embarked on an artistic career that would span more than four decades. In two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of mediums, the artist explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her engagements in the related fields of architecture, design, and education complemented those investigations.
Gego is one of the most significant artists to emerge from Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, and her career traced a markedly individual artistic path, which defied categorization. She put forth radical ideas through her investigations of structural systems: transparency, tension, fragility, spatial relations, and the optical effects of motion are all methodically addressed in her singular body of work. This historical retrospective demonstrates the breadth of Gego’s multidisciplinary practice, advancing a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artist and her oeuvre in a global context.
The museum is thankful to Fundación Gego and its directors, Tomás Gunz and Barbara Gunz, as well as the foundation’s staff and Board, for their tremendous support and collaboration towards this exhibition.
Galleries: 105 
Curator: Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães 
Venues: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand–MASP; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 
The exhibition is organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand–MASP. The exhibition was developed by Julieta González, Artistic Director, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York; and Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York; in collaboration with Tanya Barson, former Chief Curator, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and Michael Wellen, Senior Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London.
Gego installing Reticulárea at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1969 
Photo: Juan Santana 
© Fundación Gego

In Focus Gego

Gego’s Biography

Geglossary

In the Museum

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Gego. Measuring Infinity, a major retrospective offering a fully integrated view of the work by German-Venezuelan

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Marine Hugonnier

Conversations with Artists

Marine Hugonnier: Field Reports

The Film &amp; Video exhibitions program at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is permanently committed to contemporary artistic practices associated with the moving image.
Through her film-based works, Marine Hugonnier (b. 1969, Paris) explores the way in which the conventions of representation collude with ideologies, desires, and discourses. Her practice is an inquiry into the politics of vision, and seeks to uncover the underlying mechanisms of power as it is exerted in the modern capitalist era, where economic acceleration and image reproduction have evolved in synch while preserving colonialist and patriarchal biases at their core.
Originally trained as an anthropologist, Hugonnier uses documentary and fiction strategies that intermingle with one another. Central to the exhibition is Meadow Report (2021), a depiction of the famed Giverny Gardens where the French impressionist Claude Monet created an artificial environment and painted his celebrated Water Lilies in the last decades of his life, while progressively losing his sight to cataracts. She installed her camera in the middle of the lake at dusk, searching an other-than-human vantage point, to observe the garden, the edges of water-lily leaves, and Monet’s iconic green bridge. At a decisive point, the lens of the camera is intentionally removed to place the analogue film directly in contact with the environment. The resulting abstract image captures the shimmering light and movements of all beings during this quiet summer night. The title of the work invites us to consider this operation under the light of the current environmental crisis, drawing a reference to one of the earliest reports on climate change known as the „Meadows Report“ (1972), which predicted the disastrous outcomes of our continuous and unrestrained exploitation of the Earth’s resources.
In the anteroom, the large-scale photograph Towards Tomorrow (2001) shows an image taken in Alaska, on the US side of the Bering Strait, as the artist gazed across the International Date Line into Siberia, Russia. Despite the forty-mile distance between these two coasts, Siberia’s time zone is set 24 hours ahead of Alaska. While every photograph indexes an image of the past, this one also encapsulates a view of the future. Opposite to it, Desire Is Not Much, but Nonetheless… (2015) presents a study of an ancient Roman sculpture, the Sleeping Hermaphroditus, now housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus is the child of the gods Aphrodite and Hermes. Their body is revealed by the camera as it circumnavigates the curves of the marble figure, whose feet and lips have been digitally animated. Short color sequences interrupt the otherwise continuous black-and-white film loop. Undermining once again the alleged „naturalism“ of the film record, Hugonnier’s piece attempts to envisage what could constitute desire in a body that transcends conventional binaries, and invites viewers to critically consider the possibility of a non-gendered gaze.
Marine Hugonnier was born in Paris and she is currently based in London. Her work has been has been exhibited internationally, including solo presentations at Jeu de Paume in Paris, Villa Romana in Florence, Kunstverein Brauschweig, Die Tankstelle Berlin, Konsthall Malmö, and at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art. Hugonnier also holds a PhD and is Professor for Moving Image and Fictional Form at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany.
Gallery: 103 
Curator: Manuel Cirauqui
Marine Hugonnier 
Meadow Report, 2021 
Film 35mm, color, sonido 
Courtesy the artist 
© Marine Hugonnier

Marine Hugonnier. Field Reports

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Picasso sculptor. Matter and Body 

Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body

Woman with Vase

Drawings in Space

The Ladies of Boisgeloup

The Laboratory of Sculpture

Picasso’s Hand

Picasso’s “Found Art”

Picasso and the War

Pregnant Woman

Little Girl Jumping Rope

Final Period: The Pictorial Sculpture

Pablo Picasso (b. 1881; d. 1973) worked with sculpture from practically the beginning of his long career. For the Málaga-born artist, it was not a lesser medium but a form of expression on a par with painting, drawing, or engraving. In his practice, there were no major and minor arts but different languages and materials with which to transmit various aspects of his creation. The body, the ultimate objective of Picasso’s representation and his main instrument throughout his career, is the cornerstone of this exhibition, one of the events held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death.
This selection of sculptures ranges across the many styles used by Picasso to represent the forms of the human body, deconstructing it in order to recompose it. To this end, he made use indistinctly of all the means and objects within his reach, integrating them in a whole that had never before been seen. Sculptor Julio González saw Picasso’s sculptural gaze as lying at the genesis of his entire oeuvre: “I have often observed that there is no form that leaves him indifferent. He looks at everything, at every moment, because all forms represent something for him, and he sees everything as a sculptor […]. In my opinion, the mysterious side, the nerve center so to speak, of Picasso’s oeuvre is in the ‘sculpture’ that has made his work so talked about, that has won him so much glory.”
Galleries: second floor 
Curators: Carmen Giménez, Lucía Agirre 
Venues: Museo Picasso Málaga, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 
Exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with the Museo Picasso Málaga
Pablo Picasso 
Figure: Project for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, 1928 
Iron wire and plate 
59.5 x 13 x 32 cm 
Musée national Picasso-Paris, gift by Pablo Picasso, 1979, 
Inv. Nr.: MP265 
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/ Adrien Didierjean 
© Succesion Pablo Picasso

Picasso Sculptor

From Non-Finito to cubism

Drawings in space

The Boisgeloup  Plasters

Clandestine Bronzes

Ceramics

Assemblages

Sheet Metal Sculptures and Monumental Sculptures

Public projects

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This presentation of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection includes a selection of works that mark crucial moments in art history following World War II. In an ambitious gesture to underscore the resonance between art and architecture, this installation, which features some of the Collection’s most outstanding pieces, also showcases the original architecture of the building. The installation celebrates of the diaphanous and luminous spaces of the third floor of the Museum.
This exhibition is inspired both by the Museum’s holdings of singular works by artists and by historical artistic movements that are well represented in the Collection. The presentation thus highlights figures who belonged to the avant-garde of their time and whose contributions chartered new courses in post-war art history. Each gallery offers the chance to view the production of a single artist or a selection of artists who explore shared concerns from different perspectives.
Some spaces on this floor show site-specific installations or single pieces of an experiential character, like those dedicated to Sol LeWitt and El Anatsui. The work by the latter, Rising Sea, is a contemporary sculpture of great importance by the African artist, and is the latest acquisition to join the Collection. Other galleries house thematic selections on the development of abstract art after World War II, or on approaches between abstraction and spirituality, or deal with later artistic languages that developed between 1960 and 1980, such as Pop Art and the presence of popular culture in contemporary art. The displays furthermore include historic documentation on these artistic trends and the artists who contributed to them. Cette
Galleries: third floor 
Curator: Lekha Hileman Waitoller

If Walls Could Talk…

El Anatsui

Jenny Holzer

Jeff Koons

Sol Lewitt

Works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection

This presentation of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection includes a selection of works that mark crucial moments in art history following World War

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Exhibitions

Gego. Measuring Infinity

11.07.2023 - 02.04.2024

Marine Hugonnier. Field Reports

10.24.2023 - 02.11.2024

Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body

09.29.2023 - 01.14.2024

Works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection

01.24.2023 - 12.31.2023

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