This publication presents the artist's recent work, with over 75 full-page works to delight the eye. Through the colorful details, painted lines and precise vision of the authors, we delve deeply into the painter's interests, her gestures for organizing chaos and her intuitive vision of artistic practice.
"Glimmering lines, in their chromatic nuances and visual interdependence, are all strung in Grassi’s world of tension. From afar, they seem representational, woven threads of an ancestral fabric. Looking closer, they morph into pure abstraction as a well-crafted and subtle trompe l’oeil. This playful duality reflects the artist’s deepest desire to seek order in chaos."
Laura Vigo
"In her warm voice, Antonietta generously began telling me the history and processes that have guided her highly original artistic approach. It was as though she were weaving together for me the threads of her career as an artist and her way of working, threads which encompass several story lines. This was, in a way, my introduction to her extraordinary world."
Sylvie Lacerte
Antonietta Grassi
Antonietta Grassi is a contemporary artist known for her geometric abstract paintings that reference the links between textiles and technology, women's work and feminism. For over thirty years, Grassi has been engaged in the practice of painting, attempting to embrace and critique the language of formalist abstraction. Antonietta Grassi was born in Montreal, where she lives and works. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Sylvie Lacerte
Sylvie Lacerte is an art and museum historian and theorist, author, and independent curator. She holds a PhD in Art theory and practices from l’Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2007 she published La médiation de l’art contemporain, drawn from her dissertation. She also holds an MA in Museum Studies from NYU and a BFA from Concordia University.
Laura Vigo
Laura Vigo is Curator of Asian Art and Archaeology at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and invited curator for the Museum of Asian Art in Torino (MAO) where she has been involved in the current exhibition Buddha10.
