EZIO GRIBAUDO - THE WEIGHT
December 14th, 2024
BOOK LAUNCH
Ezio Gribaudo – The Weight of the Concrete
A conversation with the publisher’s team from Axis Axis and Lilou Vidal. In dialog with the work of Gribaudo and experimental poetry, Jackie Wang presented a new intervention, entitled A New Pliable Concrete: Between Water and Earth while Jesper List Thomsen read his piece Avoiding The Genius across the two spaces of Paint it Black and at the Archivio Gribaudo.
A monographic publication exploring the multifaceted legacy of the Turinese artist and publisher Ezio Gribaudo (1929–2022). This bilingual volume revisits Il Peso del Concreto (1968), Gribaudo’s seminal work blending graphic art with concrete poetry, edited by Adriano Spatola (1941–1988). This new edition contextualises Gribaudo’s oeuvre alongside works by over forty artists and poets across generations, focusing on the interplay between image, text, and materiality.
Edited by Tom Engels and Lilou Vidal
Published by Axis Axis and Grazer Kunstverein
Designed by Federico Antonini
Essays by Alex Balgiu, Tom Engels, Nadia Marcus, Luca Lo Pinto, Mónica de la Torre, and Lilou Vidal