In 1979, the Venezuelan poet Alfredo Silva Estrada published Variations on Reticulareas: in Homage to Gego, a lyrical text in which he praised the sculptural work of the German-Jewish artist Gego (1912–94). A relatively obscure figure in the history of art, Gego was, during her lifetime, a household name in post-war Latin America, most notably in Venezuela – the country that became her adopted country after she fled Nazi Germany in 1939...

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