Giovanni Greco (1953) - Assedi anacronistici

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity
GOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city in which he lives and works. After incomplete biology studies and further exploration of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 he 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 objective reality—into a kind of absolute reality.
At the core of his research lies a strong impulse aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret “thought” sometimes as undeniable passages — an act of the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable, as a means to cast fundamental problems that our mind cannot stop liberating itself from in a new light, staging visual coercions, coercions 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 substantial interest they express in a solid compositional stance; objects, figures, and even space become powerful masses given by dark, lush chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested 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 “éndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist — (éndon-éxò) where the gaze is clearly directed toward oneself and into things, yet at the same time it makes felt his desire to bring his painting closer to the viewer’s lived experience, climbing up from the depths of the soul and gradually substituting, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.