Victor Grippo is widely considered to be amongst the main precursors of conceptual art in South America. His work combined organic materials and minerals (potatoes, roses, bread, lead, mercury, and plaster) with daily objects (tables, suitcases and ovens) to depict natural forms of energy within a framework of scientific knowledge and his own writing and poetry.

From the beginning, everyday objects, modified by certain variables, were central to his work. Included in this exhibition will be Analogia I, a wall-mounted cabinet with 40 potatoes interconnected by electrodes to represent the expansion of a human being’s consciousness when one connects with others. Vida, Muerte, Resurrección, 1980 consists of five pairs of three-dimensional geometric forms. One set of the forms has been filled with dampened beans which inevitably expand and split their containers, representing the imposition of life’s force.

La comida del artista, 1991 is an installation with a half-open door leading to a table laid with food that is both significant for its scarcity (burnt bread) and abundance (gold plated eggs).