Victor Grippo
Víctor Grippo (born May 10, 1936 in Junín , † February 2002 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine installation and object artist. He was one of the founders of conceptual art in Argentina.
Life
Grippo was born in Argentina in 1936 to an Italian immigrant and an Argentinian mother with Albanian roots. In his youth the family moved first to La Plata and then to Buenos Aires. He studied chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . In the 1950s he began to devote himself entirely to art. In 1959 he attended art courses with Héctor Cartier at the "Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes" in La Plata. During this time he mainly worked as a painter and graphic artist. He joined the artist group Sí. Expressive works emerged, but in the mid-1960s his works were increasingly influenced by geometric abstraction, which he got to know in 1966 in courses for industrial design and communication at the University of La Plata. Increasingly, he turned to conceptual art with installations. In 1966 Grippo had his first solo exhibition in the Galería Lirolay in Buenos Aires. In 1970 he joined the artist group Grupo CAYC . At the beginning of the 1970s, he created his most famous group of works, Analogien , in which he used cereals, pulses and especially potatoes as objects for installations.
Awards
In 2002 Grippo received the Diamond Konex Award from Fundación Konex for his life's work.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1969: Paris Biennale
- 1971: Museo de Arte Moderno , Buenos Aires
- 1978: Grupo CAYC, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
- 1986: Biennale di Venezia
- 1988: Victor Grippo - Werke 1965−1987 , Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires
- 1993: Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century , Museum of Modern Art , New York City
- 1994: Art from Argentina 1920−1994 , The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- 1995: Palais des Beaux-Arts , Brussels
- 1999: Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s − 1980s , Queens Museum of Art, New York
- 2002: Documenta11 , Kassel
- 2007: Víctor Grippo , Camden Arts Center, London
- 2012: Víctor Grippo. A retrospective , Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires
Web links
- Biography of Víctor Grippo , MALBA (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on the website of the city of Buenos Aires (Spanish)
- ^ Víctor Grippo , exhibition review in Frieze Art magazine
- ^ Victor Grippo and the Magic of Potatoes , The Argentina Independent, Jan. 26, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grippo, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian installation and object artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Junín |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2002 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |