Ezio Gribaudo Biography
Ezio Gribaudo (Turin, 1929) is an artist and art publisher trained in the rigor of intense studies of graphic art, at the Brera Academy and subsequently at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin. Opening his artistic and professional career to the work of art publisher for the major personalities of modern and contemporary art, he had the opportunity to collaborate with Chagall, de Chirico, Fontana, Peggy Guggenheim, Miró, Moore. Thus, Gribaudo brought together an elite of renowned artists, and was able to develop editorial ideas of great impact that influenced his own artistic work, partly forged in typography. He has created volumes for Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Fabbri Editori, Garzanti, Einaudi, UTET and many others. His catalog of books, the thirty-four artists published under his direction in the Grandi Monografie Fabbri Editori (1966-1990), includes various entries by masters of modern art including Bacon, Botero, Burri, Duchamp, Guttuso, Manzù and Savinio. Gribaudo's activity, which is now solely focused on his artistic production, over the years has also included that of promoter of notable cultural events, especially in the exhibition sector. In Turin, he organized an exhibition of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in 1976 at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna and the exhibition-show Coucou Bazar in 1978 for Jean Dubuffet at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti, organized for FIAT. Furthermore, Gribaudo is a collector of modern art classics and the works he acquired include works by Calder, Carrà, Chemiakin, de Chirico, Dubuffet, Ernst, Fontana, Matta, Moore and Tàpies.
