About
graphic registries x Cecilia Alvarez
"[...] it is not drawing grids, or to translate in two dimensions what in sculpture in three dimensions. The purpose is rather to be working the same elements: space, vacuum line. " (María Luz Cárdenas, "Conversation with Gego", El Universal (Caracas), May 4, 1980, pp.a-7.
would add also, structure, texture, color ...Examples reinterpretation between 2D and 3D compositions:
left Print: Gego, Untitled, 1980. Print right: Gego, Area No. 5, 1977. 
Left: Gego, Untitled, 1955. Right: Gego, Drawing paperless 83/18, 1983. 
Left: Gego, Weaving 89/13, 1989. Right: Gego, Drawing paperless 87/124, 1987. 
Left: Gego, Untitled, 1958. Right: Gego, Jets, 1970.
talk to each other their compositions and three-dimensional structural relationships and reinterpreting share, from different techniques and graphic gestures, elements of 3D composites materia. For this it uses different devices.
For two-dimensional brush or felt-tip markers with which modulates the width and intensity of the lines. The spots of ink, pencil lines or registration marks, crayon with various pressures, the variety of papers, etc.
3D For his compositions, these are some of the materials used: steel wire steel, colored Plexiglas rods, metal beads used to bind and assemble. Galvanized mesh, nuts, screws, rods of iron, aluminum and plastic ...
* Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1912. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart. Then he trained as an artist in Caracas, Venezuela, where he lived until his death in 1994.
