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ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976
ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976
ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976
ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976
ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976
ELSA GRAMCKO, Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976

Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama), 1976

Wood assemblage
11 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.
29.8 x 49.8 cm
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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...
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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 and later marked with her own texts.

“Tiempo, ego, drama (Time, Ego, Drama),” 1976 is a colorful assemblage of wooden planks, organized in both a vertical and horizontal stacked orientation. Her poetic and fragmented usage of text, embeds the work with greater symbolic meaning.
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Provenance

Elsa Gramcko, Caracas, Venezuela
Benjamín Chumaceiro, Caracas, Venezuela

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. 99.
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