Devis Grebu

On first sight the art of Devis Grebu is peculiar, yet strangely familiar. His "autre" visions of New York City recall the makings of dream as- semblages but at the same time echo the realities of everyday life in the grand metropolis, distorted and amplified by his unique imagina- tion. NEW YORK, NEW YORK is a collection of twelve Devis Grebu ima- ges. A city that boasts an annual visitor rate of seventeen million. New York is a virtual Oz to the American public, the capitol of commerce, business and finance, queen of the arts and playground of the weal- thy, and is captured as never before by the artistic talents of Devis Grebu.

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„A reader tumbles head over heels into a surrealistic world more startling than Alice ever dreamed of. Filled with symbols and elements drawn from his exile in foreign lands, Mr. Grebu's art goes beyond illustration to social commentary. His images are visual epigrams, dense with meaning - comic, cruel, provoking, surprising. His disapproval of the automation of modern life is manifested by a bizarre and often humorous juxtaposition of images. Broken images suggest the fragility of life, its brevity. Equally appealing to the eye and the mind, Mr. Grebu's upside-down world offers, as he puts it, "a new answer to certain questions, or a question looking for new answers."

Roslyn Siegel - The NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Section - article about the Monograph published by "Rizzoli"


Devis Grebu has illustrated ( and -- sometimes -- been the author of...) more than 40 books -- for children and/or adults -- published by some renowned Publishing Houses, like: Gallimard, Hachette, Flammarion (Franta), Simon & Schuster, Penguin - Viking Books, Doudleday - Dial Press, Random House, Harper & Row (USA), Schroedel, Neugebauer (Germania - Austria), Edito (Elvetia), etc.

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