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ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977

Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977

Faucet and wood assemblage
18 7/8 x 15 in.
48 x 38 cm

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) ELSA GRAMCKO, Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object), 1977
Through her textured three-dimensional collages and wooden assemblages, Gramcko successfully overcame the inherent flatness of surfaces. The last works produced by Gramcko, who stopped making art in 1979 due to...
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Through her textured three-dimensional collages and wooden assemblages, Gramcko successfully overcame the inherent flatness of surfaces. The last works produced by Gramcko, who stopped making art in 1979 due to health issues, consist of assemblages made on wood that emphasize the handmade over the industrial mode of production with titles that suggest a skeptical intent. The artist collected found wood on beaches, to which she collaged elements of industrial debris.

In his 1982 text on Gramcko, Carlos Sánchez highlighted the work “Motivación interior alrededor de un objeto (Inner Motivation Around an Object)”, 1977. He stated: “[T]he artist doesn’t settle for the mere presence of detritus in its natural state, rather she adds a number, text or simply paints something entirely gestural in the composition; for example, an ancient faucet where only a large painted drop on the surface comes out and is contained without freely running.”
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Exhibitions

Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, May 13 – July 2, 2022.
Contesting Modernity. Informalism in Venezuela 1955 -1975. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, October 28, 2018 to January 21, 2019.
Elsa Gramcko, Bocetos de un artesano de nuestro tiempo. Galeria G, Caracas, Venezuela, 1986.
I Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1981. 

Publications

Rangel Gabriela, Aruna D’Souza. Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things. Published by Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, James Cohan, printed by Faenza Group, Italy, 2022, p. 91.
Ramírez, Mari Carmen, Tahia Rivero, María C. Gaztambide, Josefina Manrique. Contesting Modernity. Informalism in Venezuela 1955-1975. Published by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, reproduced in color, 2018 p. #113
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