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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 unfinished 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 Magritte-inspired example and later De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two seemingly contradictory layers, dream and objective reality, in a sort 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, trying to interpret the “thought”—sometimes unequivocal passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind ceaselessly frees itself, staging visual blackmail, blackmail 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 substantial interest expressed in solid compositional strength; 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 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 within things, but at the same time it conveys his desire to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually substituting, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.
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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 unfinished 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 Magritte-inspired example and later De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two seemingly contradictory layers, dream and objective reality, in a sort 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, trying to interpret the “thought”—sometimes unequivocal passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind ceaselessly frees itself, staging visual blackmail, blackmail 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 substantial interest expressed in solid compositional strength; 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 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 within things, but at the same time it conveys his desire to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually substituting, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.

