Giovanni Greco (1953) - Solo intro - cod 2509-13

Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas, artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity by the artist
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Giovanni GRECO was born in Catania, a city in which 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, dream and objective reality, in a sort of absolute reality.
At the base of his research lies a strong driving force aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret the “thought”—sometimes incontrovertible passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means of casting a new light on the fundamental problems our mind cannot stop freeing itself from, staging visual blackmail, the blackmail of the soul; further on he is drawn to metaphysical painting and mainly to the works of G. De Chirico not so much for stylistic choices but for the embedded interest that is expressed in a solid compositional strength; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by the dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested 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 “ëndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist – (éndon-éxò) – where the gaze is clearly directed toward itself and into things but at the same time makes his desire felt to bring his painting 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.