Silverstein Photography is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of the highly influential – yet little known - Mexican artist Lourdes Grobet.
Throughout her long career she has been associated with Fluxus, Conceptualism and actions; all intercontinental groundbreaking phenomena which scrutinized established art values.
In 1968 while studying as a painter in Mexico, Grobet took a trip to Paris that would change her life.
Lourdes recalls: I was in Paris and something was burning inside me. I didn’t go to museums to see old stuff but rather visited galleries that showed new work. That’s where I came across Kinetic art: form, color and physics integrated as technique into visual experience. Though the place was a wasteland on the national level, Kinetic Art is what inspired me to perform my first action in a jazz concert by Juan Jose Catalayud, creating an atmosphere for it with light and psychedelic projections that changed according to the music. Since then, I’ve worked in photography and multimedia, because I realized there was no reason for me to keep painting in the middle of the twentieth century. It was the time of mass media and that had to be the language I used.