To Naturalize Mankind, to Humanize Nature
Catalogue
- Year
- 1977
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Victor Grippo
Artist

Mixed Media
Victor Grippo was an Argentine artist whose practice spanned sculpture, installation, and conceptual work from the 1960s onward. He engaged with potatoes, electricity, and alchemical processes to investigate relationships between matter, energy, and human perception. His work often employed humble agricultural materials and simple scientific apparatus to propose philosophical questions about transformation and knowledge. Grippo's interventions operated at the intersection of minimalism, land art, and conceptual practice, grounded in a distinctly South American engagement with the body and spirituality.
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Life, Death, Resurrection
1980 · Lead, violin, wood, beans, and corn
Tables of Work and Reflection
1978 · 7 wooden desks with chalk and marker pen, clay, handkerchief, beans, stones, mirror, lights and fishing line
Energy of a Potato (or Untitled or Energy)
1972 · Potato, electric meter, electrodes and wires
Analogía I, (2da. versión)
1970 · Potatoes, zinc and copper electrodes, voltmeter, electrical cable and nylon monofilament, chair, wood, cloth, and text panel
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- Victor Grippo
- Year
- 1977
- Watts ID
- WW-1977-M148114
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
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