Edited by Ulrike Groos, Philip Kurz , Stefanie Reisinger & Kerstin Thomas

From 1932 to 1938, before emigrating to Venezuela, the artist Gego studied architecture and engineering at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. In 1955, she wrote to her former professor Paul Bonatz, ”Even if I have strayed from architecture and found myself unable to master life through it, it has nonetheless shaped me, to some degree at least. Even unhappy loves are of great value and have their effect.“ A few years later, MoMA, New York bought one of the artist’s first works. Today, Gego ranks as one of the best-known artists in Latin America. Conceptual approaches and practical ideas about architecture and processes of space creation have remained a constant theme in her work and have been the perennial subject of creative debate. This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Gego: The Architecture of an Artist at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The Fundación Gego’s permanent loan to the museum of 100 works has made it possible to give visible expression to these connections, with special attention paid to the artist’s graphic work.