”Reticulárea (literally, “reticule area”) is an idea; it is a metaphor and a microcosm for various natural and social universes; it is, as María Elena Ramos has written, both “geometry” and “the poetic disruption of that geometry”; it is and is not architecture, sculpture, a drawing without paper, a public space woven by Gego and privately, if only momentarily, un-woven and re-woven by the mind of the individual viewer”
Melina Kervandjian, Gego’s Reticulárea: Transcending Space and Time
Ph: Paolo Gasparini
Gego’s Reticulárea
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
1969
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Melina Kervandjian, Gego’s Reticulárea: Transcending Space and Time
Ph: Paolo Gasparini
Gego’s Reticulárea
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
1969
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Half a blanket under, half over; fever; cement; damp; sweaty hair; innoscriptions on the walls scratched with fingernails -
names, dates, small covenants; the same nightmare opening holes with the same torch: 'tonight', 'tonight', at dawn, 'tomorrow'.
Who will be left here to remember us when the key is heard in the lock and the long chain is dragged on the endless white where, on one side, the last cigarette we'd thrown down still smokes.
Yannis Ritsos, Piraeus Detainees' Transport Section, from Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems, ed. Nikos Stangos
names, dates, small covenants; the same nightmare opening holes with the same torch: 'tonight', 'tonight', at dawn, 'tomorrow'.
Who will be left here to remember us when the key is heard in the lock and the long chain is dragged on the endless white where, on one side, the last cigarette we'd thrown down still smokes.
Yannis Ritsos, Piraeus Detainees' Transport Section, from Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems, ed. Nikos Stangos
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The spiral in the Acheepa tradition symbolizes the Wayuu’s life journey. Dots in the designs represent death, reflecting the Wayuu’s deep link between the natural and the mystical.
Yvonne Sauphar
Venezuela; Wayuu
1930-1939
Yvonne Sauphar
Venezuela; Wayuu
1930-1939
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