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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.

Life and work
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 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. 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."

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.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 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

 * 2017-18: A Tale of Two Worlds: A Dialogue between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art, 1940s – 1980s, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
 * 2008-09: Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * 2002: Documenta11-Platform5: Exhibition, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
 * 2000: Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment, (organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)); Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery, Prague; Zachęta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo; Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
 * 1999: Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami
 * 1998: Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 * 1994: Art from Argentina: 1920-1994, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Sudwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart; Royal College of Art Galleries, London; Fundação das Descobertas, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Fundación para las Artes-Centro Borges, Buenos Aires
 * 1992: America Bride of the Sun. 500 Years in Latin American and The Low Countries, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
 * 1991: XXI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo (Grupo CAYC)
 * 1981: Towards the End of the Second Middle Age, CAYC Group, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
 * 1980: Arte Argentino Contemporáneo, 13th Exposición Internacional de Arte en Japón; Biennale Tokyo; The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Fukui; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kamakura
 * 1974: Study Conference Open Circuits—The future of television, Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * 1973: Arte en cambio o Arte y Cambio, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC), Buenos Aires
 * 1972: Arte e ideología-CAYC al aire libre-Arte de sistemas II, Plaze Roberto Arlt (Esmeralda and Rivadavia), Buenos Aires
 * 1971: Arte de sistemas I, Museo de Arte Moderno (MALBA), Buenos Aires

Selected collections

 * Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte
 * Malba-Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires
 * Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
 * The Art Institute of Chicago
 * Tate Modern, London
 * Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * Philadelphia Museum of Art
 * Phoenix Art Museum
 * Daros Latin-American Collection, Zürich

Selected bibliography

 * 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