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Àngels Ribé

Àngels Ribé

Spanish artist


Àngels Ribé (born 1943 in Barcelona) is considered one of the most important Catalan conceptual artists of the 70s. With a strong international presence, she worked alongside such artists as Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesc Torres, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others.

Àngels Ribé at MACBA in Barcelona

Biography

Ribé moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1966, and in 1969 began creating sculpture and installations, later actions and performances, working primarily with space and the body.[1]

In 1972 Ribé moved to the United States, where she lived and worked for several months in Chicago before settling in New York City. She returned to Barcelona in 1980.[2]

Work

Ribe's work, contextualized in the conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s, utilized nontraditional material, which she gradually discarded to concentrate on the ephemeral—light and shadow—and the location of the body in space. In Catalonia, her work is in the collections of the Vila Casas Foundation[3] and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA. Her work from 1969 to 1984 was the subject of a retrospective at MACBA in 2011.

Main works

  • Laberint (1969)[4]
  • Acció al parc (1969)
  • Escuma (1969)
  • 3 punts (1970–1973)
  • Transport d'un raig de llum (1972)
  • Invisible Geometry 3 (1973)
  • Light Interaction and Wind Interaction (1973)
  • N.A.M.E. (1974) Performance
  • Véhicule (1974) Performance at la Galérie de Mont-real.
  • Two Main Subjective Points on an Objective Trajectory (1975)
  • Can't Go Home (1977)
  • Amagueu les nines, que passen els lladres
  • Triangle (1978)
  • Ornamentació (1979)
  • Paisatge (1983)

Main exhibits

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Awards

  • 2012 - Premi Nacional de Cultura[8]

References

  1. "El Punt Avui".
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Barcelona (1998). Àngels Ribé: 1997; Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, gener 1998. Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  4. Àngels Ribé; Juan Bufill (2003). Àngels Ribé: del 4 de setembre al 4 d'octubre de 2003, Fundació Vila Casas, Espai VolART, Barcelona. Espai VolART. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  5. 15/07/2011- 23/10/2011. 70 artworks or photos of the artist's first years
  6. "Premis Nacionals de Cultura 2012". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

Further reading

  • Àngels Ribé (1998). Àngels Ribé 1997. Generalitat de Catalunya. Retrieved 28 September 2011.

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