Giovanni Greco (1953) - Assedi anacronistici





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Giovanni Greco (1953), Assedi anacronistici, 2024, mixed media with acrylic paint on canvas, 50 x 50 cm, original edition, hand-signed, Italy, in excellent condition, sold by Galleria.
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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel, on canvas
artist's signature on front and back;
Certificate of authenticity
GIOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After the 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 De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two layers, apparently contradictory, dream and objective reality, in a sort of absolute reality.
At the base of his research is a strong impulse aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret the “thought” sometimes through Unassailable Passages—the work of the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable as a means to cast a new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind does not cease to free 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 carried interest expressed in a solid compositional strength; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems halted and the subjects suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical echoes 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 oneself and into things but at the same time makes his desire felt to bring his painting closer to the observer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually to replace, with new dark forces, the bright 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
GIOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After the 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 De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two layers, apparently contradictory, dream and objective reality, in a sort of absolute reality.
At the base of his research is a strong impulse aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, seeking to interpret the “thought” sometimes through Unassailable Passages—the work of the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable as a means to cast a new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind does not cease to free 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 carried interest expressed in a solid compositional strength; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems halted and the subjects suspended between metaphysical influence and neoclassical echoes 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 oneself and into things but at the same time makes his desire felt to bring his painting closer to the observer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually to replace, with new dark forces, the bright and simple spaces of reason.

