Giorgia Griffa: Paths in the Forest

Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest

Edited by Robert Wiesenberger

Contributions by Joanna Fiduccia, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Kate Nesin and Giorgio Griffa

A vividly illustrated catalogue accompanying legendary painter Giorgio Griffa’s first museum exhibition in the United States
  
 Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936) has been a vital figure in Italian art for more than half a century. In a signature palette of pastel colors, the artist records lines, letters, and numbers with acrylic paint on unstretched, unprimed canvas. At once methodical and lyrical, his painting tests the capacities of his materials and the limits of representation. In 2026, coinciding with the artist’s 90th birthday, the Clark Art Institute presents his first solo museum exhibition in the United States.
  
Griffa’s references range from poetry and mathematics to music, but he has consistently turned to the natural world, and trees in particular, to articulate his interest in relationality, materiality, difference, and growth. As he explains of his various bodies of work: “There is no progress in my cycles. They are different paths in the same forest.” Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest presents a selection from almost sixty years of the artist’s work, with some paintings published for the first time. Scholarly essays offer context on different aspects of Griffa’s career and are accompanied by an original text by the artist.

152 Pages
 75 color + b-w illus.
 June 2026

Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven
 
 ISBN 9780300288575