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Museion, Bolzano鈥檚 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is pleased to explore the legacy of Turin artist and publisher Ezio Gribaudo (1929鈥�2022). Under the title The Weight of the Concrete, the exhibition pays homage to his multifaceted oeuvre at the intersection of image and language.

Gribaudo鈥檚 poetics of matter is illuminated by a contemporary scenography and echoed by voices of experimental poetry. The exhibition is produced by Grazer Kunstverein in collaboration with Archivio Gribaudo, Turin, and Museion.

The Weight of the Concrete is a comprehensive tribute to Ezio Gribaudo鈥檚 versatile career as both artist and publisher. The exhibition reassesses his work at a time when many young artists are working transdisciplinarily and regeneratively between the visual and applied arts.

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Il Peso del Concreto (1968), a seminal book that featured Gribaudo鈥檚 early graphic work alongside an anthology of concrete poetry edited by the poet Adriano Spatola. Central to both this publication and the exhibition is Gribaudo鈥檚 emblematic series of Logogrifi, which the artist developed from the 1960s onwards, from embossments on blotting paper to wooden and polystyrene reliefs. Throughout his life, the Logogrifi articulated a closely interwoven relationship with his activities as a maker of books, as well as his fascination with new industrial printing processes, typefaces, language games, and relief matrices.