Art Basel Feature with Ezio Gribaudo – Galerie Sans Titre

Art Basel Feature with Ezio Gribaudo Booth D3, Hall 2.0 VIP days: June 11–12 (by invitation) Public days: June 13–16 https://sanstitre.gallery/exhibitions/fair-art-basel-2024-basel For the Feature section of Art Basel 2024, Sans titre presents a solo exhibition by Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo (1929-2022), a seminal figure in the Turin art scene. The presentation is conceived as a reconstruction of Gribaudo’s legendary studio on Via Palladio in Turin, featuring several museum-quality works that appeared at the time on the walls of this workplace, which he occupied until the mid-1970s. Designed as a place to accommodate, discuss, and present his works on paper and lithographs, this atelier, where all the great figures of the artistic scene of his time convened, was a place of conviviality and exchange. It was also the site of his immense career as an art publisher, during which he published hundreds of books of the artists of the XX century of the avant-garde. The booth seeks to reproduce the warm, captivating atmosphere that characterized this place of work and life. Ezio Gribaudo began a career as an artist while simultaneously pursing activities dedicated to typography, printing and publishing. In 1955, he worked as a draftsman in the famed Nebiolo foundry and developed his taste for typefaces and printing machines, as well as the new technologies which characterized this flourishing industry. The relationship to the image and the printed text is physically insinuates itself in the substance of the artist’s oeuvre. Ezio Gribaudo’s first Logogrifi reflect above all his activity as a publisher, and of his fascination with new industrial printing processes (monotype and linotype) and with typographic characters and relief matrices. These works of great rigor and graphic sobriety – awarded prizes in the Graphic Arts section of the Venice Biennale in 1966 and at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1967 – thwart the rational rules of the universe from which they derive. Produced using an embossing system on blotting paper following the pressed imprint of a zinc matrix, they maintain a poetic ambiguity through the original and anachronistic arrangement of an associative process of typographic forms deriving from diverse sources (newspapers, dictionaries, architecture books, geography books, children’s books, etc.). For Art Basel 2024, Sans titre presents a series of about ten coloured Logogrifo, hung one after the other, as they were at Via Palladio’s studio. Some of these pieces are being presented to the public for the first time since the 1970s. The presentation will be enhanced by a polystyrene Logogrifo, from the same series which was on view in two recent and major retrospectives at the Grazer Kunstverein (December 2023 – March 2024) and at Museion Bolzano (until September 2024). The entirety of Ezio Gribaudo’s oeuvre evolves in parallel with his role as publisher and supporter of the artists of his time. In 1963 he began to collaborate with Fabbri Editions and published more than thirty monographs by artists of the international avant-garde (Le Grande Monografie). In 1968, Gribaudo designed a series of paintings in homage to De Chirico, who never ceased to fascinate the artist and publisher. Struck by the modular aspect of De Chirico’s work (which proceeded through repetition of a motif), Gribaudo produced a Pop Art rereading of the work of the master of metaphysical painting, thereby anticipating the homage Warhol would pay him in 1982. Gribaudo’s friendship with De Chirico and a deep knowledge of his work became the fruit of new experiments. For Art Basel 2024, Sans titre also presents an iconic work from Gribaudo’s series of tributes to De Chirico, similar to that which hung on the wall of his studio at Villa Palladio. The booth is conceived as a moment suspended in time in the heart of the fair. Visitors are invited to consult some of the most important books published by Ezio Gribaudo, within a faithful reconstruction of the artist’s atelier, uniting decorative elements, furniture, and objects.

Art Basel
Feature with Ezio Gribaudo
Booth D3, Hall 2.0

VIP days: June 11–12 (by invitation)
Public days: June 13–16

https://sanstitre.gallery/exhibitions/fair-art-basel-2024-basel

For the Feature section of Art Basel 2024, Sans titre presents a solo exhibition by Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo (1929-2022), a seminal figure in the Turin art scene. The presentation is conceived as a reconstruction of Gribaudo’s legendary studio on Via Palladio in Turin, featuring several museum-quality works that appeared at the time on the walls of this workplace, which he occupied until the mid-1970s. Designed as a place to accommodate, discuss, and present his works on paper and lithographs, this atelier, where all the great figures of the artistic scene of his time convened, was a place of conviviality and exchange. It was also the site of his immense career as an art publisher, during which he published hundreds of books of the artists of the XX century of the avant-garde. The booth seeks to reproduce the warm, captivating atmosphere that characterized this place of work and life. Ezio Gribaudo began a career as an artist while simultaneously pursing activities dedicated to typography, printing and publishing. In 1955, he worked as a draftsman in the famed Nebiolo foundry and developed his taste for typefaces and printing machines, as well as the new technologies which characterized this flourishing industry. The relationship to the image and the printed text is physically insinuates itself in the substance of the artist’s oeuvre. Ezio Gribaudo’s first Logogrifi reflect above all his activity as a publisher, and of his fascination with new industrial printing processes (monotype and linotype) and with typographic characters and relief matrices.
These works of great rigor and graphic sobriety – awarded prizes in the Graphic Arts section of the Venice Biennale in 1966 and at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1967 – thwart the rational rules of the universe from which they derive. Produced using an embossing system on blotting paper following the pressed imprint of a zinc matrix, they maintain a poetic ambiguity through the original and anachronistic arrangement of an associative process of typographic forms deriving from diverse sources (newspapers, dictionaries, architecture books, geography books, children’s books, etc.). For Art Basel 2024, Sans titre presents a series of about ten coloured Logogrifo, hung one after the other, as they were at Via Palladio’s studio. Some of these pieces are being presented to the public for the first time since the 1970s. The presentation will be enhanced by a polystyrene Logogrifo, from the same series which was on view in two recent and major retrospectives at the Grazer Kunstverein (December 2023 – March 2024) and at Museion Bolzano (until September 2024). The entirety of Ezio Gribaudo’s oeuvre evolves in parallel with his role as publisher and supporter of the artists of his time. In 1963 he began to collaborate with Fabbri Editions and published more than thirty monographs by artists of the international avant-garde (Le Grande Monografie). In 1968, Gribaudo designed a series of paintings in homage to De Chirico, who never ceased to fascinate the artist and publisher. Struck by the modular aspect of De Chirico’s work (which proceeded through repetition of a motif), Gribaudo produced a Pop Art rereading of the work of the master of metaphysical painting, thereby anticipating the homage Warhol would pay him in 1982. Gribaudo’s friendship with De Chirico and a deep knowledge of his work became the fruit of new experiments. For Art Basel 2024, Sans titre also presents an iconic work from Gribaudo’s series of tributes to De Chirico, similar to that which hung on the wall of his studio at Villa Palladio. The booth is conceived as a moment suspended in time in the heart of the fair. Visitors are invited to consult some of the most important books published by Ezio Gribaudo, within a faithful reconstruction of the artist’s atelier, uniting decorative elements, furniture, and objects.