Giovanni Greco (1953) - Spazio dimensionale

Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
signature of the artist on front and back;
Certificate of authenticity by the artist
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GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further explorations of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 began his painting activity, starting simultaneously from the Magrittean example and subsequently from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers—the dream and objective reality—in a kind of absolute reality.
At the core of his research is a strong impulse aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret “thought” as sometimes incontrovertible passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means to cast in a new light the fundamental problems with which our mind never ceases to free itself, staging visual blackmail, the blackmail of the soul; later he is drawn to metaphysical painting and mainly to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices but for the sustained interest expressed in its solid compositional force; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, velvety chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical echoes drawn from past works shaken by time, in an unknown world.
It is the world of the “éndonèxò”, a term coined by the artist – (éndon-éxò) where the gaze is clearly directed toward itself and into things, yet at the same time conveys his desire to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, drawing up from the depths of the soul and gradually, with new dark forces, replacing the clear and simple spaces of reason.