Giovanni Greco (1953) - Spazio dimensionale

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
"Dimensional Space"
Acrylic painting on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity from the artist
Gian Giovanni Greco was born in Catania, the city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further exploration of his artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 began his painting activity, starting at the same time from the Magrittean example and subsequently from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two apparently 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, attempting to interpret the “thought,” sometimes undeniable passages—the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems our mind cannot stop freeing itself from, 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 deep interest expressed in a solid compositional integrity; objects, figures, and space itself become powerful masses given by dark, thick chromatic volumes in a context where time seems stopped 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 “èndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist (éndon-éxò) where the gaze is clearly directed toward itself and into things, but at the same time it makes his desire felt to bring his painting closer to the observer’s lived experience, drawing from the depths of the soul and gradually, with new dark forces, replacing the clear and simple spaces of reason.