Giovanni Greco (1953) - Solo intro - cod, 250922

Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on front and back;
Certificate of authenticity of the artist
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Giovanni Greco was born in Catania, the city where he lives and works. After unfinished 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 seemingly contradictory layers, the dream and the objective reality, in a sort of absolute reality.
At the base of his research is a strong impulse aimed at resolving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret the “thought”—moments of incontrovertible passages— the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable, as a means to cast a new light on the fundamental problems our mind never ceases to free itself from, staging visual blackmail, blackmail of the soul; further he is drawn to metaphysical painting and mainly to the works of G. De Chirico not so much for stylistic choices but for the deep interest expressed in a solid compositional tension; objects, figures and even space themselves 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 “èndonèxò,” 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 make his painting feel closer to the viewer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.