Giovanni Greco (1953) - Solo intro - cod. 2509-10

Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel, on Canvas
artist's signature on front and back;
Certificate of authenticity from the artist
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Giovanni GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further deepening 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 later from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers—the dream and objective reality—in a sort of absolute reality.
At the base of his research is a strong drive aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret the “thought” sometimes as incontrovertible passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means of casting in a new light the fundamental problems with which our mind cannot stop freeing itself, staging visual coercions, the coercions 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 as for the substantive interest that is expressed in a firm compositional balance; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects suspended between the metaphysical influence and neoclassical references 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 inward toward 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 substituting itself, with new dark forces, for the clear and simple spaces of reason.