MASSIMO GRIMALDI
° 1974
Born in Italy, lives in Milan (Italy).
Much of Massimo Grimaldi’s artistic practice holds up a mirror to the economies in place for producing and circulating images in western mass media, particularly towards our mediated relationship to foreign, underprivileged, ‘other’ cultures. It engages directly in sanctioned activities that intervene in the lives of victims of crisis and exploitation in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, Cambodia and Afghanistan, looking to foreground the usually suppressed ethics of such intervention, as well as of so-called ‘poverty journalism’. Whilst considering the role of artists and the limitations of art, Grimaldi has invented a possibility for art to have a profound effect on people’s lives. (NH)
