Giovanni Greco (1953) - untitled 10f10

Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity
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GIOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete biology studies and further exploration of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi of Catania and in 1980 began his painting activity, starting simultaneously from the Magrittean example and later De Chirican, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers, dream and objective reality, in a kind of absolute reality.
At the base of his research lies a strong impulse aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret the “thought”—sometimes incontrovertible passages—an work of the artist Giovanni Greco ineffable as a means to cast a new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind does not cease to free itself, staging visual blackmail, soul’s blackmail; further on he is drawn to metaphysical painting and primarily to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices as for the strong interest that is expressed in a solid compositional order; objects, figures, and even space become powerful masses given by dark, fleshy chromatic volumes in a context where time seems stopped 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 oneself and inside things but at the same time conveys his desire to make his painting feel closer to the observer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with new dark forces, the bright and simple spaces of reason."