This exhibition, curated by Spaniard Alicia Chillida, is intended to provide a broad-ranging view of the work of Víctor Grippo from his earliest artistic output of the 1960s to that of 2002, taking as a reference the idea of transformation – one of the principles that underpin his artistic practice: the transformation of science into art, of matter into energy, of energy into awareness, of death into life.
Having initially trained as a chemist, Víctor Grippo began working as a painter in the oppressive political climate of the 1960s. Throughout his lifetime he showed an unflagging interest in the relationship between art, science and daily life. His first sculptures and installations of the 1970s are already imbued with his fascination with the transformation and regeneration inherent in nature, owing to its alchemic power. Ethics and aesthetics are priority issues for this artist, for whom dissociating art from life is inconceivable. The apparently hermetic oeuvre of Víctor Grippo brings us face to face with poetics steeped in utopia and humanism. In him the revolution is silent, slow but constant. The crucial aim of his work is to raise greater awareness in mankind, in the community.
The exhibition has been coproduced by the MUAC of Mexico D.F and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago de Compostela with the collaboration of AC/E through its PICE programme for the internationalisation of Spanish culture. It will subsequently travel to the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá.
Having initially trained as a chemist, Víctor Grippo began working as a painter in the oppressive political climate of the 1960s. Throughout his lifetime he showed an unflagging interest in the relationship between art, science and daily life. His first sculptures and installations of the 1970s are already imbued with his fascination with the transformation and regeneration inherent in nature, owing to its alchemic power. Ethics and aesthetics are priority issues for this artist, for whom dissociating art from life is inconceivable. The apparently hermetic oeuvre of Víctor Grippo brings us face to face with poetics steeped in utopia and humanism. In him the revolution is silent, slow but constant. The crucial aim of his work is to raise greater awareness in mankind, in the community.
The exhibition has been coproduced by the MUAC of Mexico D.F and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago de Compostela with the collaboration of AC/E through its PICE programme for the internationalisation of Spanish culture. It will subsequently travel to the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá.