Giovanni Greco (1953) - Parossismo

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity from the artist
GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, the city in which he lives and works. After 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 later from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers—the dream and the objective reality—into a kind of absolute reality.

At the core of his research is a strong driving impulse aimed at resolving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret the “thought”—sometimes undeniable progress— the artist Giovanni Greco’s ineffable work as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems our mind never ceases to free itself from, staging visual blackmail, the blackmail of the soul; later he is drawn to metaphysical painting and mainly to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices but for the conveyed interest expressed in a solid compositional coherence; objects, figures and even space itself become powerful masses given by the dark, velvety chromatic volumes in a context where time seems to stand still and the subjects are 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 it makes his desire felt to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with dark new forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.