Fair: Felix 2024, Los Angeles

For Felix Art Fair 2024, Sans titre proposes a presentation of two emblematic artists of its program: Ezio Gribaudo (1929 – 2022) and Jessy Razafimandimby (1995).

For the Room 104 at the Roosevelt Hotel, Jessy Razafimandimby has produced a new series of works that form a holistic installation: paintings, furniture, domestic and everyday objects. These works evoke the hushed, vintage atmosphere of the hotel room and the mysteries that inhabit it. They refer more broadly to themes linked to displacement, uprooting and travel. These subjects are central to the practice of Razafimandimby, who left his native Madagascar as a child. The presentation for Felix notably features a series of new paintings produced specifically for the fair. These represent moments of intimacy, languor, and embrace.
As usual, they are painted on antique fabrics found by the artist, revealing traces of their past lives. The artist’s works are always based on found objects, to which he attributes an important spiritual and sentimental value, in the manner of a talisman.

Jessy Razafimandimby’s works were conceived by the artist in dialogue with the work of another great explorer of his time, Ezio Gribaudo (1929 – 2022). The pieces respond to each other in color and motif.
A seminal figure of the Turin art scene, Gribaudo was also an avid traveler, who circumnavigated the globe several times and brought back numerous sketchbooks from each of his journeys.
In 1965, before traveling to Cuba following Wifredo Lam’s invitation, he completed a road trip along the American West Coast. For Felix, Sans titre will also present a series of Gribaudo’s exceptional drawings, made between Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon, Arizona and Mexico.
Conceived as a tribute to the artist, who recently passed away, the presentation will highlight the curatorial rediscovery and research work carried out by institutions such as the Grazer Kunstverein and the Museion Bolzano.