Giovanni Greco (1953) - Spazio dimensionale - cod. 2509-7

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Original unique work
Acrylic enamel on canvas
Artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity from 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 exploration of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 he began his painting activity, starting at the same time from the Magrittean example and later from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two seemingly contradictory layers—the dream and the objective reality—into a kind of absolute reality.

At the base of his research lies a strong drive to solve the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret the “thought” as sometimes undeniable transitions—an artwork by the artist Giovanni Greco ineffable as a means to cast new light on fundamental problems with which our mind never ceases to free 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 but for the substantive interest expressed in a firm compositional integrity; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, lush chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects are suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical allusions 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 itself and inward to things, yet at the same time conveys 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 clear and simple spaces of reason.