Giorgio Griffa is committed to the “material intelligence” of paint on canvas—the luminosity of water-based media and their absorption into natural canvas. Join Montserrat M.M. Le Mense, Senior Paintings Conservator at the Williamstown + Atlanta Art Conservation Center, and Robert Wiesenberger, exhibition curator, for a hands-on discussion of Griffa’s materials and processes, and a discussion about the chemistry of painting. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest.

Image: Giorgio Griffa, Sessanta frammenti (Sixty fragments; detail), 1980, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Fondazione Giorgio Griffa, Turin, and Casey Kaplan, New York