Giovanni Greco (1953) - intro

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on front and back;
with Certificate of Authenticity from the artist
GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further exploration 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 later from De Chirico where it was possible to resolve two seemingly contradictory layers—the dream and the 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 the self and the world, trying to interpret the “thought” sometimes—indisputable passages—which the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work uses as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems of which our mind does not stop freeing itself, staging visual ultimatums, the ultimatums 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 as for the persistent interest expressed in a solid compositional balance; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dark, velvety chromatic volumes in a context where time seems stopped 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 oneself and into things, but at the same time conveys his desire to make his painting feel 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.