Giovanni Primo Greco
Statement
In my works, I seek to convey a human vibration that heightens feelings through form, line, color, and intentionality; an encounter with the unexpected, opening up new worlds and new possibilities of vision, where the work itself is understood as the result of the encounter between man and nature, in an alternating empathy between pure form and its complexity. I am strongly drawn to the material relationships that the eye can perceive in the surfaces of objects, along city walls, or even more so in the memory of the past. I am intent on developing a discourse on structurality, and in particular on technique in which color is assumed in its linguistic value, which also applies to signs, which are allowed to constitute an alphabet without a code that guarantees a form that reflects an idea or traces and documents an emotion. Thus, color inserts itself into the layout, into the diagram of tensions, speed, and cadence that the gesture encounters as it explores the interior space and the surface to be painted. In search of a point of access or contact.
Born in Sicily, where he lived for many years, he completed his art studies at the Scuola Libera del Nudo in Catania, the Accademia dei BB.AA, and the Accademia dei BB.AA in Catania. He began his painting career in the early 1990s. During those years, he collaborated with galleries and cultural associations, which allowed him to enter the most stimulating environments and deepen his desire to further his knowledge of art history, encouraging and enriching him with the culture that inspired him to pursue his artistic career.His work often straddles the line between figuration and abstraction, leading to informal art, where elements of real landscapes are reinterpreted in an emotional way, becoming emotional projections: a mental territory, tied to memories, perceptions, and moods. His works often appear "built in layers," as if each level represents a fragment of the past. Time is not linear, but accumulated, almost sedimented on the support. This is characterized by the intense use of textures, overlapping colors, and gestural marks that become visual traces, like marks left by time or memory. In painting, this is not just technique, but also scratches, overlays, and textures that give the work physical depth.
Many of his works convey a sense of stillness and suspension, almost timeless, that do not tell explicit stories, but evoke sensations and atmospheres, where the viewer is invited to contemplate rather than "understand." In short, the real central theme is not a precise subject, but a question: how time, places and memory constitute what we are
The works of the cornerstone artists of metaphysics and surrealism and subsequently of Giuseppe De Gregorio, Manlio Bacosi, Emilio Vedova, Giacomo Platania (Jacò) his fellow citizen, revolutionized his way of seeing, of what he says to himself and how he feels.
Currently lives between Catania and Rome
