Àngels Ribé is considered one of the most important Catalan

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 conceptual artists of the 70s. With a strong international presence, she worked alongside such artists as Vito Acconci

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, Laurie Anderson

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, Gordon Matta-Clark

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, Lawrence Weiner

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, Hannah Wilke

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, Martha Wilson

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, Francesc Torres, and Krzysztof Wodiczko

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, among others.

Biography

Ribé moved from Barcelona to Paris

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 in 1966, and in 1969 began creating sculpture and installations, later actions and performances, working primarily with space and the body.

In 1972 Ribé moved to the United States

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, where she lived and worked for several months in Chicago before settling in New York

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. She returned to Barcelona in 1980.

Work

Ribe's work, contextualized in the conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s, utilized nontraditional material, which she gradually discarded to concentrate on the ephemeral--light and shadow--and the location of the body in space. In Catalonia, her work is in the collections of the Vila Casas Foundation and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA. Her work from 1969 to 1984 was the subject of a retrospective at MACBA in 2011.

Main works

• Laberint (1969)
• Acció al parc (1969)
• Escuma (1969)
• 3 punts (1970–1973)
• Transport d'un raig de llum (1972)
• Invisible Geometry 3 (1973)
• Light Interaction and Wind Interaction (1973)
• N.A.M.E. (1974) Performance
• Vehicule (1974)Performance at la Galerie de Mont-real.
• Two Main Subjective Points on an Objective Trajectory (1975)
• Can't Go Home (1977)
• Amagueu les nines, que passen els lladres
• Triangle (1978)
• Ornamentació (1979)
• Paisatge (1983)

Main exhibits

Year	Title	Place	City
1969	Laberint	Centre Artístique de Verderonne	París
1975	Two Main subjective Pints on an Objective Trajectory	3 Mercer St. Gallery	Nova York
1977	Can't Go Home	C Space Gallery	Nova York
1977	Amagueu les nines que passen els lladres	Galeria G	Barcelona
1977	El viatge: primera part: No es pot tornar	Espai Tres. Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell	Sabadell
1978	I demà encara plourà, encara que els elelfants tinguin por (perquè tenen els ulls petits)	Fundació Joan Miró Fundació Joan Miró The ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...	Barcelona
1979	E la forma	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Bellaterra Bellaterra Bellaterra is a wealthy quarter of Cerdanyola del Vallès, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona . It's famous for being the location of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona...
1979	Ornamentació	Escola Universitària de Professorat	Sant Cugat del Vallès
1979	Ornamentation: the unrelated Object	C Space Gallery	Nova York
1980	Bajo el...	Sala de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona	Pamplona Pamplona Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
1983	Escultures	Espai 10, Fundació Miró	Barcelona
1998	Angels Ribé 1997	Centre d'Art Santa Mònica Centre d'Art Santa Mònica Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, sometimes shortened as CASM, is a public museum of contemporary art in Barcelona opened in 1988. It's located in the Raval side of Rambla de Santa Mònica . It has no permanent collection but it hosts a number of travelling expositions of contemporary Spanish and... . Espai Vau	Barcelona
1998	El terrat	Galeria Senda	Barcelona
2003	Àngels Ribé	Fundació Vila Casas, Espai VolART	Barcelona
2011	En el laberint. Àngels Ribé 1969-1984	MACBA	Barcelona

External links

• Interview to Àngels Ribé in Spanish