Giovanni Greco (1953) - Assedi anacronistici

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
Artist's signature on front and back;
Certificate of authenticity
GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further explorations of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi of 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—the dream and objective reality—in a kind of absolute reality.
At the base of his research lies a strong drive aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret the “thought” through sometimes incontrovertible passages—the work of the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable as a means to cast in a new light the fundamental problems with which our mind does not cease to liberate itself, staging visual blackmail, blackmail of the soul; further on he is drawn to metaphysical painting and primarily to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices as for the tangible interest expressed in a solid compositional integrity; objects, figures and even space themselves become powerful masses given by dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical allusions drawn from works of the past 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 itself and into things, yet at the same time conveys his desire to bring his painting closer to the lived experience of the observer, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually substituting, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.