Francesco Greco - IMPETO BIANCO
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Francesco Greco's Impeto Bianco, an original 2024 mixed media work in black and white (100 cm by 70 cm) signed Firmato, with acrylic paint on canvas, produced in Italy and sold directly by the artist, in excellent condition.
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“Impeto Bianco” is a work that originates from a primordial, instinctive, unfiltered gesture.
White manifests as an absolute force: light, origin, uncontaminated space. It is not a backdrop, but an active presence that expands across the canvas through a decisive, tactile intervention, where the cementitious material builds reliefs, tensions and depth.
The canvas loses its traditional nature and becomes a body.
Painting becomes matter, matter becomes language.
In time and gesture, black intervenes. Not as opposition, but as evolution.
It traverses white, interrupts it, marks it. It is a trace of experience, of rupture, of transformation. It is what makes the work alive, authentic, human.
Thus a dynamic balance is created between contrasting forces:
light and shadow, impulse and control, purity and contamination.
The tactile, irregular, and vibrant surface reacts to light in ever-different ways, generating a continuous dialogue with the surrounding space. The work is never static: it changes, it breathes, it transforms with the gaze of those who observe it.
“Impeto Bianco” is a presence.
A focal point capable of defining the identity of a contemporary, minimalist, or design environment, elevating it through force, character and depth.
“Impeto Bianco” is a work that originates from a primordial, instinctive, unfiltered gesture.
White manifests as an absolute force: light, origin, uncontaminated space. It is not a backdrop, but an active presence that expands across the canvas through a decisive, tactile intervention, where the cementitious material builds reliefs, tensions and depth.
The canvas loses its traditional nature and becomes a body.
Painting becomes matter, matter becomes language.
In time and gesture, black intervenes. Not as opposition, but as evolution.
It traverses white, interrupts it, marks it. It is a trace of experience, of rupture, of transformation. It is what makes the work alive, authentic, human.
Thus a dynamic balance is created between contrasting forces:
light and shadow, impulse and control, purity and contamination.
The tactile, irregular, and vibrant surface reacts to light in ever-different ways, generating a continuous dialogue with the surrounding space. The work is never static: it changes, it breathes, it transforms with the gaze of those who observe it.
“Impeto Bianco” is a presence.
A focal point capable of defining the identity of a contemporary, minimalist, or design environment, elevating it through force, character and depth.
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Artist
Francesco Greco
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
IMPETO BIANCO
Technique
Acrylic painting, Mixed media
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2024
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Black, White
Height
100 cm
Width
70 cm
Style
Abstract
Period
2020+
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