Biography 1968

He prepares a personal exhibition at the “Gallerie de France” in Paris (the catalogue introduced by Renato Barilli), exclusively presenting logogrifi. In those years, white became his most typical and distinguishing colour, to the point of stimulating Giorgio De Chirico into talking about “leucophylia” in Gribaudo’s work. White logogrifi are also exhibited at the “Galerie Zodiaque” in Geneva. This time, the catalogue is introduced by Michel Tapié. More personal exhibitions at the “Studio d’Arte Condotti 75” in Rome (catalogue introduced by Giovanni Carandente) and at the “Macom” Gallery in Turin (presented by Piero Bargis), where Gribaudo presents white logogrifi with gold leaf, named, just like the exhibition’s title and not accidentally, “Gli ori di Gribaudo”. Other personal exhibitions are held at the “Viotti” Gallery in Turin. “Fratelli Pozzo” Editors publish the first big monography of Gribaudo’s work: “Ezio Gribaudo: Il peso del concreto”, with reproductions of white logogrifi on blotting paper and texts by Michele Straniero, Renato Barilli, Katia Ambrozic, Lucio Cabutti, Giovanni Carandente, Giorgio Colombo, Enrico Crispolti, Andreina Griseri, Michel Tapié, Mercedes Viale Ferrero, Cesare Zavattini and Luigi Carluccio, including concrete poetry by twenty-nine European authors. He takes part in the Paris “Salon de Mai” and two joint exhibitions respectively held at the Museum of Modern Art in Caracas and the “Marino” Gallery in Locarno, as well as at the “Seconda Biennale Internazionale dell’Incisione” in Pescia, “Il fiore della grafica contemporanea”. At the same time, the new director of “La Stampa”, Alberto Ronchey, assigns him with the task of revamping the Turin daily, by giving it a new graphic appearance.