ester grinspum

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born in recife_ brazil_ 1955_ lives and works in são paulo

The works of Ester Grinspum inhabit a space between sculpture and drawing, having this as a basic element of her research. From sculpting, Grinspum takes a fixation of volumes and the occupation of space; from drawing, she takes the transience of the lines. Contrary to what one might imagine, the intersection between drawing and sculpture does not constitute an appeased hybrid, but remains an undefined space where the tension persists between the fixed form that occupies the space and the organic line that constantly moves it. evoking relations of dialogue and delimitation. Grinspum’s vocabulary, present both in the drawings of the initial production and in the sculptures created after the 1980s, is an unfolding of long purification and polishing processes in which icons from the history of art mix with those created by the artist.

Ester Grinspum studied at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, between 1973 and 1977, and at the Instituto de Arte e Decoração, in São Paulo, where she had classes with artists like Luiz Paulo Baravelli and Marcello Nitsche. In 1981, She had her first exhibition, with drawings and watercolors, at Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 1988, created her first sculpture, that integrates with the installation O duplo e o tempo, presented in 20ª Bienal de São Paulo (1989). She was granted a scholarship from the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, where she studied the sculptures of Constantin Brancusi, process that would accentuate her tendency to work with continuous lines.

She took part in the iconic collective exhibition Como vai você, Geração 80?, held in 1984 at the Escola de Artes do Parque do Lage, in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004, at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, she held the show Ester Grinspum: uma antologia. Her works are present in the institutiions Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of University of São Paulo, the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brooklyn Museum (USA), Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France), Collection Patricia Phelps de Cisneros