Giovanni Greco (1953) - intro

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
with Certificate of Authenticity from the artist
GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further deepening of his artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 began his painting activity, starting from the Magrittean example and later from De Chirico, where possible to resolve two seemingly contradictory layers—the 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 the self and the world, seeking to interpret “thought,” sometimes unmistakable passages—the work of the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable as a means to cast the fundamental problems our mind never ceases to liberate itself from in a stage of visual coercion, coercions 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 substantive interest expressed in a solid compositional structure; objects, figures, and even space become powerful masses given by dark, lush chromatic volumes within a context where time seems halted and the subjects suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical allusions drawn from past works shaken by time, in an unknown world.
It is the world of the “èndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist (éndon-éxò) where the gaze is clearly directed toward itself and within things, yet at the same time conveys his desire to make his painting feel closer to the lived experience of the observer, drawing from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.