Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. is pleased to present a selection of works by Argentine artist Sarah Grilo (1919-2007) that were created following her time in New York City from 1962 to 1970.
Installation view of "Sarah Grilo and the Urban Unconscious", Cecilia De Torres, Ltd. New York, 2018
“The Urban Unconscious” is comprised of paintings and works on paper from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s that capture the formal elements which Grilo absorbed from the urban landscape that surrounded her during these eight pivotal years.
Grilo moved to New York City in 1962 upon receiving a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and it was at this point that her work took a radical turn. Grilo broke from her background in Concrete abstraction, and began to incorporate—through her own unconscious formal means—the urban references that surrounded her: from the graffiti that ran rampant throughout the city’s walls, to the traces of letters, numbers, and symbols in various fonts and typographies that peeled off the posters plastered around the city streets.
Grilo’s appropriations during her stay in 1960s New York continued to define her work over the course of the remaining decades, all while maintaining an acute sensibility to color in her highly lyrical and gestural compositions.
Installation view of "Sarah Grilo and the Urban Unconscious", Cecilia De Torres, Ltd. New York, 2018
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