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Víctor Grippo
Born(1936-05-10)May 10, 1936
DiedFebruary 2002 (aged 65–66)
NationalityArgentine
StyleConceptual art

Víctor Grippo (May 10 1936 - February 2002) was an Argentine conceptual artist. Grippo was the recipient of the Diamond Konex Award for Visual Arts in 2002, and is regarded as one of the chief figures of conceptual art in Latin America.[1]

Life and work

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Víctor Grippo was born on May 10, 1936 in Junín, Buenos Aires, the son of Italian immigrants. Grippo studied chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata and art at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes. He held his first solo exhibition in 1966[2] and joined the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC) a few years later in 1970. Led by Jorge Glusberg and grounded in the tenants of conceptual art, CAyC strove to develop multidisciplinary work that brought together art, science, and social sciences, an ethos which underpinned Grippo's work from the 1970s onward.[3] It was at this time that he began to work on his series Analogías. Analogía I, first presented at MALBA in 1970, showcased his recurring use of potatoes in his work, in this instance as sources of energy. On his use of potatoes, Grippo writes:

Art uncovers hidden or concealed relationships. If one of my works 'rediscovers' the energy capacity of the potato, such an ordinary foodstuff that is consumed almost unthinkingly by all inhabitants of the planet for 'not a day passes without potatoes,' this is because I try to come up with a totalising image that will destroy or weaken this kind of blindness that has rendered it invisible for most people. To put it simply, we use them, we eat them, but we forget what they are, all that they entail. Everything responds to a vision of the world, to that inner state, that form of life.[4]

As with Analogía I, Grippo's work often paired organic materials with common objects to explore the transformation of energy and form. He lived and worked in Buenos Aires, participating in numerous group exhibitions around the world and a number of solo exhibitions in the Americas. Grippo died in 2002. Posthumously, his work is regularly shown in international exhibitions.[2]

Selected exhibitions

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Selected solo exhibitions

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  • 2015: 'Ritual del pan y las cenizas, en memoria del artista Víctor Grippo, XII Edición de la Bienal de la Habana
  • 2013-14: Víctor Grippo: Transformation, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá
  • 2012: Homenaje, Malba - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires
  • 2009: Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires
  • 2009: Víctor Grippo: Todo en marcha, Alexander and Bonin, New York
  • 2008: Víctor Grippo: MODUS OPERANDI-Muestra ecléctica, Galeria Van Riel, Buenos Aires
  • 2006-2007: Víctor Grippo: mesas de trabajo y reflexión, Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 2006: Víctor Grippo: selected works 1978-2001, Alexander and Bonin, New York
  • 2006: Víctor Grippo: Works 1971 - 2001, Miami Art Central, Miami
  • 2004: Grippo: Una Retrospectiva. Obras 1971 - 2001, Malba-Colección Constantini, Buenos Aires
  • 2001: Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires
  • 1995: Víctor Grippo, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 1994: Víctor Grippo. Energía 1971-1994, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
  • 1991: Fawbush Projects, New York
  • 1991: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (ICI Centro Cultural), Buenos Aires
  • 1989: Cercando la luce, yesos, Galería Álvaro Castagnino, Buenos Aires
  • 1988: Víctor Grippo: Obras de 1965-1987, Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires
  • 1984: Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud Babenco, São Paulo
  • 1983: Víctor Grippo-Alegorías, Fundación Arché, Buenos Aires
  • 1983: Víctor Grippo. Frate Focu, Galería Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires
  • 1980: Galería Artemúltiple, Buenos Aires
  • 1977: Víctor Grippo: conciencia de la energía, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC), Buenos Aires
  • 1976: Algunos oficios, Galería Artemúltiple, Buenos Aires
  • 1968: Entre la simetría y el diseño, Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires
  • 1966: Víctor Grippo: Pinturas, Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires
  • 1958: Víctor Grippo, Salón Nueva Era, Tandil, Buenos Aires
  • 1953: Galería Colegio Nacional, Junín, Buenos Aires

Selected group exhibitions

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Selected collections

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Selected bibliography

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  • Art From Latin America Since 1968: Dark Mirror. ex cat. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2015 ISBN 978-3981757514
  • Víctor Grippo: Tranformación. ex. cat. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), 2014 ISBN 978-8445351499
  • Víctor Grippo: Homenaje, ex. cat. Buenos Aires: Malba– Colección Costantini, 2012
  • Animism: Modernity through the Looking Glass, ex. cat. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2011 ISBN 978-3863350703
  • van den Valentyn, Heike, Ed. Radical Shift: Political and Social Upheaval in Argentinean Art since the 1960s, ex. cat. Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011
  • Víctor Grippo: Modus Operandi-Muestra eclectic. ex. broch. (essay by Mercedes Casanegra) Buenos Aires: Van Riel, 2008
  • Cullen, Deborah, Ed. Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960–2000. ex. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2008
  • Grippo: Una Retrospectiva. Obras 1971-2001, Malba-Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires, 2004 ISBN 9872144516
  • Víctor Grippo. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1995 ISBN 9786070254796

References

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  1. ^ "Konex Award 2002: Visual Arts | Konex Foundation".
  2. ^ a b http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/artist/victor-grippo/biography
  3. ^ Ravilious, Ella (2016-07-08). "Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  4. ^ Grippo, Víctor (September 2001). "Cambiar los hábitos, modificar la conciencia. Encuentro de Jorge di Paolo con Víctor Grippo publicado en abril de 1982 en la revista El Porteño, no. 4". Ramona, Revista de Artes Visuales. No. 16.
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Category:1936 births Category:2002 deaths Category:People from Buenos Aires Province Category:Argentine artists Category:Latin American artists Category:Conceptual artists