Galumphing (On the freedom between the hand and the language). Manual labor should be the highest value, not because of its relation to what it produces, but because of its relation to the man who carries it out. Simone Weil Video poem-action of my hands working while recycling the pallets for the Galumping facility and A.E.I project. (Integral ecological villages) Texts by Simone Weil.
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Rubén Grau. Buenos Aires 1959. He studied Constructions and Visual Arts. He lived in Brazil 1984/88, there he carried out exhibitions and ecological actions. He returns to Buenos Aires, conforms with Juan Le Parc, Volco, Portillo, Romero, Barassi, Benveniste, the Confluencia group (1988/92). Land art. Aconcagua - Mont Blanc. He participated in actions of the Escombros group between 1989/93, XI International Critics Conference-CAYC, among others. Of the numerous exhibitions in our country and abroad, we can mention: XIII International Critics Conference. Installation ¨Without bread and without work¨ CAYC / C.C.R. -¨Bookspace¨. Installation. "Mackbethporteño" A.Orensanz Foundation New York.- AEIUO. Installation ¨ Tantalia¨, on the work of Macedonio Fernández, Sala Cronopios C.C.R.- Argentine Shipment to the Medellín International Art Festival: Minujin, Benedit, Grau- Gallardo, Dompé. Installation Where? "Memoria del Rio¨ Ecological-participatory intervention with 300 elementary school students.-Nacarvé (retrospective of works 1997-2002) CC Borges.- Poetics of Silence, Roberto Elia, Rubén Grau, IILA, Palazzo Sta. Crocce, Rome Curator Irma Arestizabal .- "Scrittura come costruzione del discorso" Espartaco, Esteves, Grau (Argentina), Baruchello, Balestrini, Pignotti (Italy) LavatoioContumaciale, Rome (Fondazione Menna) Words, images and other texts. Visual poetry. PalliCollection , Italy and MAMBA Bs As.- Analog mount, Installation,.Pabellón4 art gallery. Oceanic melody . Installation. ScopeBassel, Suiza . Pabellon4 art gallery . Forest poiesis. GaleriaYKW Bs.As. Mnemosyne Project. . (Argentine Libraries) Grüße an den HerrenabendInternacional /multimedia projects Stadtmuseum Kassel Shades of Grau . installation. ParnûLinnagalerii .Estonia. A/mor poetic of degrowth. Installation , video and objects. Trabucco award 2020 National Academy of Fine Arts -Klemm Fundation 2020
Some of the collections that have his work: Egidio Marzona, Berlin. Olive McCollum Jenney, Houston, MASC Brazil. Grüneisen, Arg. Orensanz Foundation N.Y, Michele Iannone, Italy. Yvonne Kook Wescott, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books MoMA, Coleccion José Luis Lorenzo, Arg., Etc.
Publications and critical reviews: Mnemosyne Book (2006-2016 works) .- Poetic Book of Silence. (works 1996-2006) .- Critical History of Argentine Art Rubén Grau. Facilities. Jorge Glusberg.- Dictionary of trends and concepts of contemporary art. Leonel Estrada (Grau defines Hot Conceptualism) .- Deconstruction of the word and the book. Irma Arestizabal.- Rubén Grau recovers the forgotten art of the book. Jorge Glusberg. A. Financiero.- Prologue of the International Art Festival catalog, Colom-bia. Jorge Glusberg.- Rubén Grau, With Rimbaud's wings. Jorge Taverna Irigoyen.- Grau represents Argentina. Jorge Glusberg, AmbitoFinanciero - Prose del observa-torio, book Poetics of silence Osvaldo Svanascini. - Mnemosyne Project Book. P. Rizzo.- The books of good memory L. Isola.- From one Mount analogous to another. Laura Isola. Profile Magazine.- Retrospective catalog, Horacio Safons.- Painting, discourses and gender. Astica, Grau, Garnica, Pellissier, bySafons.- Grupo Confluencia .Rosa Faccaro, Clarín.Chuy Magazine. Untref magazine ofLatin American studies- Biographicaldocumentary Los Visuales. Canal Encuentro: Noé, Schvartz, CostantinoGallardo, among others.
