One of the main names of Argentinian conceptual art, Victor Grippo dedicated a good part of his production to the investigation of traditional oppositions, such as art-science, nature-culture, real-artificial, as a way to broaden our awareness regarding the world and how we can change it. His installations gather daily objects displaced from their usual functions and displayed in such a way as to create systems with a logic of their own.
Process of energy generation through very simple technical resources are frequent in his works. One example is the use of potatoes as a raw material.
Among his main exhibitions are his participation in the biennials of São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France), Havana (Cuba), and Venice (Italy), in addition to the Kassel Documenta (Germany).
Abre a porta (2006); Rodoviária de Brumadinho (2005)
Beam Drop Inhotim
Beehive Bunker
Bisected Triangle, Interior Curve
By Means of a Sudden Intuitive Realization
Deleite
Desert Park
Elevazione
Equilíbrio Amarrado (2004); Embrionário (2003)
Escultura para todos os materiais não transparentes
Gui Tuo Bei
Inmensa
Invenção da Cor, Penetrável Magic Square #5, De Luxe
Narcissus Garden
O espaço físico pode ser um lugar abstrato, complexo e em construção
Palm Pavilion
Pinocchio Block Head
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The Mahogany Pavilion (Mobile Architecture nº 1)
Troca-troca
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Viewing Machine
Gallery Artworks
Carlos Garaicoa
Carroll Dunham
Doris Salcedo
Doug Aitken
Galeria Cristina Iglesias
Lygia Pape
Marilá Dardot
Matthew Barney
Mediterranean
Rivane Neuenschwander
True Rouge
Valeska Soares
Botany
Botanical Highlights
Bambuzinho
Bismarck Palm
Black Magic Taro
Brazilwood
Buritirana
Canary Island Date Palm
Canela-de-ema or Vellozia compacta
Coco-de-pedra
Coité
Copaíba
Copaíba
Cycad or Queen Sage
Giant Fern
Imperial Bromeliad
Jacarandá-preto or Brazilian Rosewood
Jequitibá
Juçara Palm
Macaúba palm
Octopus Agave
Paxiúba
Philodendron
Ponytail Palm
Raffia Palm
Robellini Palm
Swamp Cypress
Talipot Palm
Tamboril
Xaxim
Yellow Ipê
Themed gardens
Jardim de Todos os Sentidos
Jardim de Transição
Jardim Desértico
Jardim Pictórico
Jardim Sombra e Água Fresca
Jardim Veredas
Largo das Orquídeas
Meliponário
Vandário
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Adriana Varejão
Aleksandra Mir
Amilcar de Castro
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Carroll Dunham
Chris Burden
Cildo Meireles
Claudia Andujar
Cristina Iglesias
Dan Graham
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Doris Salcedo
Doug Aitken
Edgard de Souza
Elisa Bracher
Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima
Giuseppe Penone
Hélio Oiticica
Janet Cardiff
Jarbas Lopes
John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres
Jorge Macchi
Lucia Koch
Lygia Pape
Marilá Dardot
Matthew Barney
Miguel Rio Branco
Neville D’Almeida
Olafur Eliasson
Paul McCarthy
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rivane Neuenschwander
Robert Irwin
Rommulo Vieira Conceição
Simon Starling
Tunga
Valeska Soares
Victor Grippo
Waltercio Caldas
William Kentrigde
Zhang Huan
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Galeria Claudia Andujar
Galeria Cosmococa
Galeria Cristina Iglesias
Galeria Fonte
Galeria Galpão
Galeria Lago
Galeria Marcenaria
Galeria Mata
Galeria Miguel Rio Branco
Galeria Praça
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Strelitziaceae
Velloziaceae
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Victor Grippo, La Intimidad de la Luz en St. Ives, 1997. Photo: William GomesVictor Grippo, La Intimidad de la Luz en St. Ives, 1997. Photo: William Gomes
Victor Grippo, La Intimidad de la Luz en St. Ives, 1997, [detail]. Photo: Eduardo OrtegaVictor Grippo, La Intimidad de la Luz en St. Ives, 1997, [detail]. Photo: Eduardo Ortega