Laura Grisi: The Measuring of Time
Language: English
Published by JRP|Editions, 2022
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- Laura Grisi: The Measuring of Time
- Publisher
- JRP|Editions
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3037645660
- ISBN 13
- 9783037645666
On the many lives and mediums of a postwar Italian artist-adventurer
Published on the occasion of her long-deserved retrospective at Muzeum Susch, this book testifies to the singular vision of Italian artist Laura Grisi (1939–2017) within contemporary art history. Born in Greece, educated in Paris and living between New York and Rome, where she died, Grisi spent long periods of her life in Africa, South America and Polynesia. This involvement with non-Western cultures indelibly marked her own search for a cosmic thinking. Although her work is often reduced to Pop art, Grisi always worked within the fundamental motif of the “journey”―from remote locations visited and documented, to the multiplicity of mediums used. Grisi embodied a stateless, nomadic female subject defying the politics of identity, the univocity of representation and the unidirectionality of time. Grisi's work spans from her avant-garde Variable Paintings of the mid-1960s and her 1970s pioneering environmental installations dealing with fog, wind and rain, to her conceptual photo-works of the 1980s.
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About the Author
Née à Rhodes, en Grèce, en 1939, éduquée à Paris et vivant entre New York et Rome où elle est décédée en 2017, Grisi a passé de longues périodes de sa vie en Afrique, en Amérique du Sud et en Polynésie. Cette implication avec des cultures au-delà de celles du monde occidental devait profondément marquer ses propres expériences dans la recherche d'une pensée cosmique ou d'une « science du concret » (Levi-Strauss). Bien qu'elle ait fait de la photographie la méthode originale de ses recherches au début des années 1960, elle passe ensuite aux « peintures variables » au milieu des années 1960 (avec des panneaux coulissants et des tubes au néon). À la fin des années 1960, elle crée des installations environnementales dynamiques dans lesquelles elle reproduit artificiellement des phénomènes naturels tels que le brouillard, le vent et la pluie, avant de parvenir, dans les années 1970 et 1980, à une forme verbale descriptive et à un langage mathématique comme outil conceptuel, afin d'explorer les mécanismes de la perception et de la connaissance humaines. L'ensemble de l'œuvre de Grisi s'efforce de prendre en compte l'ampleur, la multiplicité, l'imperceptibilité et la prolifération infinie de tous les possibles, mais part de contraintes précises, de lacunes paradoxales, de limites linguistiques et sémiotiques, selon une approche proche du Nouveau Roman, du cinéma de la Nouvelle Vague et du groupe de l'Oulipo.
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