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Artworks
Sin título (Untitled), 1957
Oil on canvas31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.
81 x 64.9 cmSoldIn 'Untitled', 1957, a hybrid black structure—part organic, part machine gear—represented as a “painted sculpture” dominates the pistachio-green background of the composition. A few spots of a white-yellow hue were...In "Untitled", 1957, a hybrid black structure—part organic, part machine gear—represented as a “painted sculpture” dominates the pistachio-green background of the composition. A few spots of a white-yellow hue were applied to the black structure to bring a sense of depth to the flatness of the composition. The organic simplicity of Gramcko’s structure to what critic Lucy Lippard described as a new kind of funereal monument different from the nineteenth-century academic sculpture in which its “repeated forms are intentionally inactive.”Exhibitions
Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, May 13 – July 2, 2022Arte Abstracto de Venezuela, Galeria Don Hatch, November 2 - 17, 1957
Elsa Gramcko, Una aquimista de nuestro tiempo, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela, September - November, 1997
Literature
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. 45.