Nidia Olmos, widow of Víctor Grippo, is responsible for the artist's legacy. Recognized for his contributions to conceptual art, Grippo's work, apparently hermetic, exposes a poetics full of utopia and humanism. The idea of transformation underlies his artistic practice, a regeneration inherent to nature and its alchemical power that permeates his first sculptures and installations. Since the mid-sixties, in tune with the process of dematerialization of the artistic avant-garde, Grippo worked with perishable materials that were part of ephemeral installations.
Tiempo (1991) was part of the exhibitions of the banquet_metabolism and communication project of Medialab Mad. Use potatoes to represent the metabolic process of transferring energy from an analog state to an energetic state or, as in this case, to a digital state. When death comes, organic life is transformed into an idea, it becomes something immaterial and, therefore, freed from temporal ties.
