Giorgio Griffa (Turin, 1936), artist, has been a leading figure on the international arts scene and one of the most respected contemporary painters ever since the 1960s. In 1968 he abandoned the figurative style to evolve a new language, used throughout his career as a painter: the canvas is peopled with elementary signs in water-based acrylic paint applied to the raw surface (jute, hemp, cotton or linen), which is left “bare”, without a frame. His works are vibrant and free, fixed directly to walls with small nails which only support their top edges; subdivided into cycles, they are known as an “unfinished constant”, with a stylistic language based on repetition, which acquires the rhythmic consistency of the iconic signs and expressive grammar of writing.
His works have been exhibited all over the world, from the Moderna Museet in Stockholm to the MACRO in Rome, and collected by Italian and international galleries
(including, to name just a few, Sonnabend, Biasutti, Toselli, Ariete, Lorenzelli, Milione, Guastalla, Samangallery, Godel and Malborough).
