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Italian visual artist and designer (born 1937)
Grazia Varisco (born 1937 in
Milan ) is an Italian visual artist and designer.
[1]
Varisco attended the
Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan from 1956 to 1960, where she was a student of
Achille Funi .
[2] In 1960 she joined Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani,
Gianni Colombo and Gabriele De Vecchi's
kinetic art and
op art Gruppo T,
[3] with whom she participated in exhibitions such as 'Arte Programmata' (Milan, 1962), '
Nouvelle tendance ' (Zagreb, 1963) and the 'Miriorama' series (Milan, Genoa, Tokyo, Rome, Padua and Venice, 1960–63).
[4] Between 1961 and 1967 she worked as a graphic designer for the multinational retailer
La Rinascente , the architecture and design magazine
Abitare , the design company
Kartell , and the Milan City Council.
Varisco is considered one of the few female artists involved in the
op art movement together with
Edna Andrade ,
Bridget Riley and
Vera Molnár .
[5] Her work has been featured in many international exhibitions, including the
Venice Biennale (1964, 1986 and 2022), the
Rome Quadriennale (1973), the Toyama Triennale (1990); 'Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic’ (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and
Hayward Gallery , London, 2000); 'Beyond Geometry' (
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at the
Pérez Art Museum Miami , 2004) and 'Op Art' (
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , 2007).
From 1981 to 2007 she was Professor of Theory of Perception at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
[6]
In 2007 the President of Italy
Giorgio Napolitano awarded her the 'Presidente della Repubblica Prize for Sculpture' in Rome.
[7]
Selected exhibitions
2017: Grazia Varisco: Allineamenti scorrevoli ricorrenti ,
Triennale Museum,
Milan
2015: Grazia Varisco: Filo Rosso 1960–2015 , Cortesi Gallery,
Lugano , Switzerland
2014: If… Works 1959–2014 ,
Volker Diehl Gallery ,
Berlin
2013: Grazia Varisco: With a Restless Gaze , Ritter Museum,
Waldenbuch , Germany
2012: Ghosts in the Museum ,
New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York
2007: Op Art ,
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2005: L'oeil moteur: Art optique e cinétique 1950–1975 , Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
2005: Gli ambienti del Gruppo T: Le origini dell'arte interattiva , National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
2000: Beyond Geometry: Experiments in forms 1940s to 1970s , Los Angeles County Museum and Miami Art Museum (now
Pérez Art Museum Miami )
2000: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic ,
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Hayward Gallery,
London
Bibliography
Gillo Dorfles , Grazia Varisco 1960/1976 , 1976, Edizioni del Naviglio, Milan
Giovanni Maria Accame, Grazia Varisco 1958/2000 , 2001, Edizioni Maredarte, Bergamo
Jacqueline Ceresoli, Grazia Varisco: Se guardo ascolto lo spazio , 2006,
Skira , Milan
ISBN
9788876247293
Giorgio Verzotti and Elisabetta Longari, Grazia Varisco: Se... , 2012, Edizioni Mazzotta, Milan,
ISBN
9788820219901
Hsiaosung Kok and Francesco Tedeschi, Grazia Varisco: Mit rastlosem Blick , 2013, Ritter Museum, Waldenbuch,
ISBN
9783884234488
Michele Robecchi, Grazia Varisco: If (1960–2015) , 2015, Mousse Publishing, Milan
ISBN
9788867491865
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