Book Launch | “Gego: Weaving the Space in Between” with Mónica Amor and Mari Carmen Ramírez
November 16, 2023
This discussion celebrates the release of Gego: Weaving the Space in Between by Mónica Amor. Following the talk with curator Mari Carmen Ramírez, signed copies of the book are available for purchase courtesy of the MFA Shop.
For more than 25 years, Amor has maintained a deep engagement with work of Gego, a key figure in the development of 20th-century Latin American art. Join for a fruitful conversation filled with insights into Gego’s practice and influence, as well as the ways in which Gego’s art has been variously interpreted over the past few decades.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free. The discussion takes place in the Hirsch Library, located on the lower level of the Beck Building.
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About the Speakers
Mónica Amor’s recent scholarship has resulted in the publication Gego: Weaving the Space in Between, a major new work about an artist who has come to be appreciated by Houston audiences through groundbreaking exhibitions mounted by Mari Carmen Ramírez in 2002 and 2005.
Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for Arts of the Americas at the MFAH. TIME magazine has called her one of the most influential Hispanics in America. Ramírez began her career as director of the Museum of Anthropology, History and Art at the University of Puerto Rico.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.