Biography 1969
A very long series of personal exhibitions are held this year: eight, respectively held at the Albert White Gallery in Toronto, La Maison des Arts et Loisirs in Le Creusot, the Galleria G13 in Seregno (where single piece logogrifi produced over the last two years are exhibited and introduced in the catalogue by Giorgio De Chirico), at the Hollar Gallery in Prague (Gribaudo exclusively presents 1967-69 logogrifi on paper and, for the occasion, a catalogue by Jiri Siblik is published), the Galerie Zodiaque in Geneva and the Gissi Gallery in Turin. At this last exhibition, Gribaudo proposes logogrifi made with a a new material, polystyrene, all bearing titles not using words but progressive numbers preceded by the initials of Ezio Gribaudo, EG. Similar works are also presented in Paris at the Galerie Rive Droite. For this occasion, a catalogue enriched by various texts and some poems is published and translated into French for the first time, whereas Appunti cubani, pastels and oils executed in 1967 during or immediately after Gribaudos journey to the Caribbean island, are exhibited at the Schwarz Gallery in Milan. He takes part in a huge joint exhibition dedicated to Italian Art, held at the Galleria Roma in Chicago. He also takes part in the VIII Mostra della Grafica in Ljubljana and finally in the Mostra di Grafica Italiana Contemporanea at the Prague National Gallery. During the summer, he goes on a long journey to Tanzania and Uganda where, as usual, he fills a great number of travel note-pads. Using the latter ,Gribaudo prepares a graphics file in 75 copies on the Safari theme, with exotic animal motives and the typically African baobab tree.