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

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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 biology studies and further exploration of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 he began his painting activity, drawing simultaneously from Magritte’s example and later from De Chirico’s, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers—the dream and the objective reality—in a kind of absolute reality.
At the core 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 decisive passages——the artist’s work is ineffable as a means to cast in a new light the fundamental problems with which our mind cannot stop wresting, staging visual coercions, coercions of the soul; later he is attracted to metaphysical painting and primarily to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices but for the lasting interest expressed in a solid compositional backbone; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by the dark, lush chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects hover between metaphysical influence and neoclassical allusions drawn from past works shaken by time, in an unknown world.
It is the world of the “êndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist—(éndon-éxò)—where the gaze is clearly directed toward oneself and into things, yet at the same time signals his desire to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with new dark forces, the bright and simple spaces of reason.