This is the first retrospective dedicated to the Italian-Swiss artist, who recently passed away in 2024. Aiming to document the artistic journey of Elisabetta Gut, retracing its various phases from the early 1960s onwards – spanning a period of sixty years – the exhibition will feature 70 works, including paintings, collages, sculptures, and book-objects.
After an initial figurative and post-Cubist phase, her research shifted towards something more informal. The current exhibition in Athens follows this evolution, beginning with the multi material works of the early 1960s. These include large, mainly monochrome white canvases, where objects connected to memory emerge, that the artist recovers and organises in a dreamlike and timeless, but at the same time, very material dimension.
Towards the late 1970s, Gut became involved with Visual Poetry, developing distinctive poetics that would define her work from that point on. Music, nature, and poetry were her main sources of inspiration, from which she drew elements that she reworked based on a personal system of codes with fantastical alphabets that, despite their imaginative nature, followed strict and rigorous rules.