ANTONIETTA GRASSI
BOOK LAUNCH
Price : 60 $
Dimensions : 25.40 cm x 30.48 cm
140 pages, color, hard cover, casebinding, French, English Type: Monograph
Artist : Antonietta Grassi
Authors : Sylvie Lacerte, Laura Vigo
IBN: 978-2-923612-89-8
This publication presents the artist's recent work with more than 75 full-page works for the greatest pleasure of the eyes. Through the colorful details, the painted lines and the precise vision of the authors, we explore in depth the interests of the painter, her gestures of organizing chaos and her intuitive vision of artistic practice.
“In Grassi's tense world, the shimmering lines are linked in their chromatic nuance and visual interdependence. From a distance, they seem to have a representative value, reminiscent of the woven threads of an ancestral fabric. Up close, they transform into a pure abstraction, revealing themselves to be a subtle and finely executed trompe-l’oeil.”
-Laura Vigo
“Generous, Antonietta, with her warm voice, began to tell me the stories and processes that governed her completely original artistic approach. She has, so to speak, woven for me the threads of her journey and her way of working, which encompass several stories. It was, in a way, my introduction to her fantastic world.”
- Sylvie Lacerte
ANTONIETTA GRASSI is a contemporary artist known for her geometric abstract paintings which reference the links between textiles and technology, women's work and feminism. For over thirty years, Grassi has engaged in the practice of painting attempting to embrace and critique the language of formalist abstraction. Antonietta Grassi was born in Montreal where she lives and works. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University and a master’s degree in arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
SYLVIE LACERTE is a historian and theorist of art and museums, author and independent curator. She holds a doctorate in Arts Studies and Practices (UQÀM) and published The Mediation of Contemporary Art, a work based on her thesis, in 2007. She also completed a master's degree in Museum Studies (NYU) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with specialization in scenography (Concordia).
LAURA VIGO is curator of Asian art and archeology at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and guest curator at the Museum of Asian Art in Turin (MAO) where she co-produced the Buddha10 exhibition.