Research Catalog

Title

Elsa Gramcko : the invisible plot of things / edited by Gabriela Rangel ; essays by Gabriela Rangel and Aruna D'Souza ; contributions by Luis Felibe Farias S.

Author

Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994

Publication

Houston, TX : Sicardi Ayers Bacino ; New York, NY : James Cohan, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rangel, Gabriela
• D'Souza, Aruna
• Farías, Luis Felipe
• Sicardi Ayers Bacino (Gallery), host institution.
• James Cohan Gallery, host institution.

Description

159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 x 23 cm

Summary

Postwar artist Elsa Gramcko (1925-94) never identified her practice with a formal artistic movement but freely explored geometric abstraction, Surrealism and Informalism through painting, assemblage, and sculpture. She is often associated with prominent Venezuelan women artists such as Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), Tecla Tofano and Mercedes Pardo, who also began to expand the limits of art in the 1960s. The publication frames Gramcko's contribution to global modernism outside the doctrinal limitations of the avant-garde, offering a comprehensive survey of her artistic practice from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s-from her paintings of graphic, biomorphic shapes to her groundbreaking assemblages made of conglomerate techniques that morphed the use of found wooden boards and planks. It includes essays by Gabriela Rangel and art historian and writer Aruna D'Souza, which examine Gramcko's critical approach to petro-modernity, along with unpublished letters the artist wrote to Alejandro Otero in the early 1960s that defined her relationship to objecthood. -- Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Invisible plot of things

Subject

• Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994 > Exhibitions
• Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the two-part exhibition Elsa Gramcko: the invisible plot of things, curated by Sicardi Ayers Bacino ... Houston, TX, May 13-July 2, 2022.... James Cohan ... New York, January 6-February 11, 2023"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 151-153).

Contents

Foreword / Sicardi Ayers Bacino and James Cohan -- The invisible plot of things: Elsa Gramcko and the poetics of the pause / Gabriela Rangel -- Plates -- Elsa Gramcko of Venezuela / Luis Felipe Farías S. -- Inner motivation around an object / Luis Felipe Farías S. -- Elsa Gramcko's petromodernism / Aruna D'Souza -- A conversation between Elsa Gramcko, Miguel Miguel and Margot Römer, September 2, 1976 -- Letters from Elsa Gramcko to Alejandro Otero

Call Number

JQF 24-419

ISBN

• 9781532378850
• 1532378858

LCCN

2022918236

OCLC

1368000046

Author

Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994, aritst.

Title

Elsa Gramcko : the invisible plot of things / edited by Gabriela Rangel ; essays by Gabriela Rangel and Aruna D'Souza ; contributions by Luis Felibe Farias S.

Publisher

Houston, TX : Sicardi Ayers Bacino ; New York, NY : James Cohan, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 151-153).

Added Author

Rangel, Gabriela, editor, author.

D'Souza, Aruna, author.

Farías, Luis Felipe, writer of added commentary.

Sicardi Ayers Bacino (Gallery), host institution.

James Cohan Gallery, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-419