Magazzino Italian Art presented a four-part lecture series “Una visione globale”: Arte Povera’s Worlds curated by 2019-20 Magazzino Scholar-in-Residence Tenley Bick.
In this first lecture of the series, Victoria Surliuga explored the life and work of Turin-based artist and publisher Ezio Gribaudo, winner of the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966. A contemporary of Germano Celant, Gribaudo worked closely with many key figures of modern art from around the world, including Marcel Duchamp, Peggy Guggenheim, Joan Miró, and Francis Bacon, among others. Mirroring Celant’s endeavor to turn Arte Povera into an artistic trend with a global impact, Gribaudo had a keen interest in expanding the international scope of his artistic and editorial work. Belonging neither to Arte Povera nor any school, Gribaudo’s work was nonetheless essential to a more thorough understanding of contemporary Italian art.
About Victoria Surliuga
Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Italian Program Coordinator and World Cinema Coordinator at Texas Tech University. She is a scholar of modern and contemporary Italian art, cinema, and literature, as well as a poet and a translator. She was awarded The 1905 Fellowship of the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association for her research on Peggy Guggenheim and art patronage, a grant to the Italian Program at Texas Tech University form the CH Foundation to curate the exhibition Ezio Gribaudo’s Theaters of Memory at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (2016), Scholarship Catalyst Grants from Texas Tech University, and was Humanities Fellow at the Humanities Center of Texas Tech University. She has also curated two other exhibitions on Ezio Gribaudo at Texas Tech University: Ezio Gribaudo: Life and Art (2019), Ezio Gribaudo: A Lifetime in Art (2018). Her publications on Gribaudo include five books: Ezio Gribaudo’s Seashells (Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2019), Ezio Gribaudo: Enchanted Archaeology (Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2018), Landscapes by Ezio Gribaudo (Torino: Archivio Gribaudo, 2018), Ezio Gribaudo: My Pinocchio (Pistoia: Edizioni Gli Ori, 2017), Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism (New York and London: Glitterati, 2016; First Place President’s Faculty Book Award, Texas Tech University, for 2017–2018). www.victoriasurliuga.com.
