LAURA GRISI

BORN
LIVES&WORKS
1939, Rhodes, Greece
2017, Rome, Italy

Starting from photography, which she got fond of during her travels with her husband Folco Quilici, from ’65 she began to devote herself to pop painting. She is the first female artist to use neon in her works, together with industrial materials such as plexiglass and metals, with which she creates sliding panels to open like windows in order to appreciate the whole image. Soon her work becomes more conceptual, with a series of works on nature and its phenomena, from the wind to the fog to the rainbow.  A pioneer of video-art, her best-known works are The Measuring of Time (1969), where she tries to capture infinitude by counting the grains of sand on a beach, and Wind Speed 40 Knots (1968), in which she attempts to shape the wind.

SIGNS

  • Laura Grisi. The Measuring of Time, Muzeum Susch, Switzerland, 2021
  • Earth Air Fire Water: Elements of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA,1971
  • 33rd Venice Biennale, invited artist, Italy, 1966
MAGAZINE
The Bag 2022