Àngels Ribé

Àngels Ribé (born 1943 in Barcelona) is considered one of the most important Catalan conceptual artists of the 70s. With a strong international presence, she worked alongside such artists as Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesc Torres, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others.

Àngels Ribé at MACBA in Barcelona

Biography

Ribé moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1966, and in 1969 began creating sculpture and installations, later actions and performances, working primarily with space and the body.[1]

In 1972 Ribé moved to the United States, where she lived and worked for several months in Chicago before settling in New York City. She returned to Barcelona in 1980.[2]

Work

Ribe's work, contextualized in the conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s, utilized nontraditional material, which she gradually discarded to concentrate on the ephemeral—light and shadow—and the location of the body in space. In Catalonia, her work is in the collections of the Vila Casas Foundation[3] and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA. Her work from 1969 to 1984 was the subject of a retrospective at MACBA in 2011.

Main works
  • Laberint (1969)[4]
  • Acció al parc (1969)
  • Escuma (1969)
  • 3 punts (1970–1973)
  • Transport d'un raig de llum (1972)
  • Invisible Geometry 3 (1973)
  • Light Interaction and Wind Interaction (1973)
  • N.A.M.E. (1974) Performance
  • Véhicule (1974) Performance at la Galérie de Mont-real.
  • Two Main Subjective Points on an Objective Trajectory (1975)
  • Can't Go Home (1977)
  • Amagueu les nines, que passen els lladres
  • Triangle (1978)
  • Ornamentació (1979)
  • Paisatge (1983)

Main exhibits
Year Title Place City
1969 Laberint Centre Artístique de Verderonne París
1975 Two Main subjective Pints on an Objective Trajectory 3 Mercer St. Gallery New York
1977 Can't Go Home C Space Gallery New York
1977 Amagueu les nines que passen els lladres Galeria G Barcelona
1977 El viatge: primera part: No es pot tornar Espai Tres. Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell Sabadell
1978 I demà encara plourà, encara que els elelfants tinguin por (perquè tenen els ulls petits) Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona
1979 E la forma Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra
1979 Ornamentació Escola Universitària de Professorat Sant Cugat del Vallès
1979 Ornamentation: the unrelated Object C Space Gallery New York
1980 Bajo el... Sala de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona Pamplona
1983 Escultures Espai 10, Fundació Miró Barcelona
1998 Angels Ribé 1997 Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Espai Vau[5] Barcelona
1998 El terrat Galeria Senda Barcelona
2003 Àngels Ribé Fundació Vila Casas, Espai VolART[6] Barcelona
2011 En el laberint. Àngels Ribé 1969-1984 MACBA[7] Barcelona

Awards
  • 2012 - Premi Nacional de Cultura[8]

References
  1. "El Punt Avui".
  2. "Àngels Ribé i el canvi de paradigma en l'art dels anys setanta".
  3. http://www.fundaciovilacasas.com/ca/projecte_art/artistes/2444/ficha_artista
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Barcelona (1998). Àngels Ribé: 1997; Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, gener 1998. Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  6. Àngels Ribé; Juan Bufill (2003). Àngels Ribé: del 4 de setembre al 4 d'octubre de 2003, Fundació Vila Casas, Espai VolART, Barcelona. Espai VolART. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  7. 15/07/2011- 23/10/2011. 70 artworks or photos of the artist's first years
  8. "Premis Nacionals de Cultura 2012". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

Further reading
  • Àngels Ribé (1998). Àngels Ribé 1997. Generalitat de Catalunya. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
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