Giovanni Primo Greco
Italy,
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.
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
CV
Education
- Liceo artistico
- Free school of the nude at Accademia BB.AA. Catania
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2026 – Free Forms – Independent Artists – Villa Brentano – Busto Garolfo Milano
2025 – Contemporary Now – Galleria GaMec – Pisa
2022 – Artivisive – Ossimoro Art Gallery & Technology Rooms – Torino
Dimensioni – Chiostro Palazzo Minoriti – Catania
Identity – Independent Artists – Busto Garolfo (MI)
Sintesi Astratte – Galleria ARTtime – Udine
Abstract 2.0 – Independent Artists – Busto Garolfo (MI)
2020 – Attimo eterno – La verità del Tempo – Ossimoro Art Gallery – Torino(Italy)
2019 – Genio e simbolismo nell’arte contemporanea – Tornatora Art gallery – Roma
Dimensioni – Ex Mercato ortofrutticolo – Siracusa
Alla ricerca della bellezza – La Corte di Felsina – Bologna
Premio “Apollo Dionisiaco” – Accademia Internazionale di Significazione
Poesia e Arte Contemporanea – Roma
2018 – L’isola : fra mito e realtà. Tutte le sfumature del verde – Palazzo della Cultura (Paternò) Italy
Artoteca – YoucanArt – Museo Villa Smilea di Montale -(permanenza) (PT)
2017 – Materia – Galleria Arte al Centro – Catania (Italy)
Tra Lucidità e Follia – Galleria Zero Uno – Barletta (Italy)
Art(e)nergy – Spazio CUBET – Milano (Italy)
2016 – Il ritmo dell’arte – Galleria Evasioni Art Studio – Roma (Italy)
Dimensioni – Chiostro Palazzo Minoriti – Catania (Italy)
Biennale Metropoli di Torino – Vincitore 1° premio sez.pittura – Torino (Italy)
Vibrazioni Astratte – Galleria ArtTime – Udine (Italy)
2015 – Esposizione 6×6 – Galleria Allangolo – Lugano (Svizzera)
2014 – Progetto Mosca 2014 – Artisti Italiani . Gostny Dvor – Mosca (URSS)
Arte Fiera – ARTEPADOVA 2014 – Padova (Italy)
Technolgy’s men – Independent Artists Gallery – Milano (Italy)
Dedicato a Giorgio Morandi – La corte di Felsina – Bologna
2013 – Abstracta – Libera mens – La Corte di Felsina – Bologna (Italy)
Rassegna arte visiva – Sinergie creative – Accademia Federiciana – Catania
2012 – Expo Bologna 2012 – Galleria Wikiarte – Bologna (Italy)
Post-Avanguardia Pop-Surrealism – Galleria Salotto dell’arte – Torino (Italy)
Il Virtualesimo Post-avanguardia – Galleria Rinascenza Contemporanea – Pescara (Italy)
Shades of Italy – Vibe Gallery – London (UK)
2011 – Mostra Internazionale DOPPIOSENSO – PAN di Napoli (Italy)
Mostra Internazionale Premio Scamozzi 2011 – Palazzo Monte di Pietà – Vicenza (Italy)
Attuali rimandi novecenteschi – Galleria Ariele – Torino
2010 – Internazionale ItaliArte – Villa Gualino – Torino (Italy)
La nuova figurazione – Pinacoteca Civica – Imperia (Italy)
Finestra figurativa contemporanea – Galleria Ariele – Torino
2009 – Declinazioni stilistiche – Accademia Federiciana – Catania (Italy)
Collettiva 345 – SpazioUno – Milano (Italy)
Ricerca visiva – Accademia Federiciana – Catania
2008 – International Expo Taormina 2008 – Palazzo Ducale – Taormina (Italy)
Rassegna Biennale di Venezia – Galleria Terzomillennio – Venezia (Italy)
Rassegna Italiana Arte Visiva – Le Ciminiere – Catania
La nuit des musée – Direction des musèes de France – Catania
2007 – Artexpress – Galeria Geraldes da Silva – Oporto (Portugal)
II° Encuentro Internacional de Artes Plastiques – Palacio Morellon – Madrid (Spain)
Contemporanea – Art Fair – Forlì (Italy)
II^ Ed. AgrigentoArte in Tour – Segnali del Tempo – Agrigento
Oscillazioni contemporanee – Galleria CentroArte Moderna – Pisa
Arte Meeting – Palazzo del Turismo – Riccione
2006 – Cromie Mediterranee – Galleria Artelier – Milano (Italy)
Mostra Internazionale Itinerante – ArtsXWorld for Africa – Comics x Africa
2005 – 13^ Expo ViviAgrigento – Palazzo Congressi – Agrigento (Italy)
– Triennale d’Arte Contemporanea – Le Ciminiere – Catania
2004 – Rassegna d’arte “Linguaggi Incoercibili” – Palazzo Del Toscano – Catania
2003 – Art Fair – Cremona (Italy)
– Nuova Arte Contemporanea – Palazzina Vignali – Mantova
2002 – 4^ Mostra Mercato Immagina – Reggio Emilia (Italy)
“Tra tradizione e innovazione” – Accademia Federiciana – Catania
2001 – Contaminazioni stilistiche – Accademia Federiciana – Catania
– Arte Mostra Mercato – Livorno (Italy)
1999 – Tra realismo ed astrattismo – Ex Falegnameria Com.le – Catania (Italy)
1998 – Medialità espressive e cromatiche – Centro Arte Minerva – Parma (Italy)
1997 – Mostra Regionale Interforze – Palazzo Del Toscano – Catania
1995 – 3^ Contemporanea “Renato Guttuso” – Camera Commercio – Catania (Italy)
Giornata Mondiale dell’Universalesimo – Conferenza interdisciplinare sulle
problematiche dell’uomo e dell’ambiente – Mostra d’arte internazionale -Catania
Rassegna d’arte contemporanea – Emilio Greco – Palazzo Borsa – Catania
1992 – Rassegna d’arte “Quattro aspetti dell’espressione visiva” Acireale
1991 – 5^ Mostra Arte Moderna – Galleria Le Arti – Catania
Prizes & Awards
- Apollo Dionisiaco – Accademia Internazzionale di Poesia e Significazione – Roma
- Vincitore 1^ premio pittura Biennale Metropoli Torino
- Vincitore Premio Scamozzi – Federcritici – Vicenza
Collections
IN STUDIO
Art Studio
CONCEPTS & MORE
Polimateric
informal-abstract works in mixed media with use of various materials and colors mixed together to obtain
material effects of great impact.
Polimateric
informal-abstract works in mixed media with use of various materials and colors mixed together to obtain
material effects of great impact.
signs and graphics
What is matter if not the fulcrum of energy and strength? Giovanni Primo Greco shapes it, making it ductile, unique, alive from time to time. His research is a continuous experimentation of styles and techniques: the artist ranges from abstract to informal art. Sometimes it is the emotional value of color that the artist wants to highlight, other times we have gestural and material painting, still others an experimentalism of heterogeneous materials freely placed together on the suppor
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