Giorgio Griffa was born in 1936 in Turin, where he lives and works.<\/p>\n
In the sixties, during Arte Povera artistic movement in Turin and after a decade of figurative pictorial practice, Griffa approached abstract painting starting from the attendance of Filippo Scroppo’s school of painting, even if his real training occurred in contact with the artists of his generation, that he knew thanks to Aldo Mondino. Between 1967 and 1968 Griffa set the basis for his pictorial artwork and outlined his own language, which still characterizes his practice: the support – canvas or paper – is placed on a plane, ready to accept the acrylic sign, tempera or watercolor, diluted in water. Often he paints on the floor, to prevent the very fluid color from dripping downwards, thus controlling the sign, traced with the brush or sponge. The canvas gradually ceases to be linked to the realization of a finished image and becomes a place where a trace, a line, the signs find their space. As Giorgio himself said: \u201cI realized the thing that intrigued me most in those years was the diferente approach to intelligence of matter – my colleagues laid the foundations of the question so that it was matter itself with its intelligence that did the artwork – on contrary I believed in the intelligence of painting. I just put the color on the support “.<\/p>\n
Griffa exhibited for the first time in the gallery of Gian Enzo Sperone in 1969, beginning to frequent more and more assiduously the gallery and other artists connected to Sperone.<\/p>\n
Giorgio Griffa’s artworks have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including Prospect 1969<\/em>\u00a0(St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle, D\u00fcsseldorf, 1969);\u00a0Processi di pensiero visualizzati \u2013 Junge Italianische Avantgarde<\/em>\u00a0(Museo di Lucerna, 1970);\u00a0\u00a0Prospect 1973<\/em>\u00a0(St\u00e4dtische Kunsthalle, D\u00fcsseldorf, 1973);\u00a0Contemporanea<\/em>\u00a0(Villa Borghese, Roma, 1973);\u00a0Geplante Malerei\u00a0<\/em>(Westfalischer Kunstverein, M\u00fcnster, 1974); la sala personale alla 39\u00b0Biennale di Venezia nel 1980;\u00a0Informale in Italia<\/em>\u00a0(GAM, Bologna, 1983);\u00a0Astratta<\/em>\u00a0(Palazzo Forti,Verona, 1988);\u00a0Astratta<\/em>\u00a0(Palazzo della Permanente, Milano, 1988);\u00a0Aspetti della Pittura Italiana dal Secondo Dopoguerra ad oggi<\/em>\u00a0(Museo di Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, 1989);\u00a0Aspetti della Pittura Italiana dal Secondo Dopoguerra ad oggi<\/em>\u00a0(M.A.S.P., Sao Paulo, 1989);\u00a0Giorgio Griffa\u00a0<\/em>(Pinacoteca Comunale, Ravenna, 1991);\u00a0Pittura Italiana da Collezioni Italiane<\/em>\u00a0(Museo di Rivoli, 1997);\u00a0Uno e Due<\/em>\u00a0(Galleria d\u2019Arte Moderna, Torino, 2001);\u00a0Uno e Due<\/em>\u00a0(Galleria d\u2019Arte Moderna, Torino, 2002);\u00a0Giorgio Griffa\u00a0<\/em>(Institute Mathildenh\u00f6e, Darmstadt, 2005);\u00a0Canone Aureo \u2013 Golden ratio<\/em>\u00a0(MACRO, Roma, 2010);\u00a0Fragments 1968-2012<\/em>\u00a0(Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2012);\u00a0Danza dei neuroni<\/em>\u00a0(Galleria Lorcan O\u2019Neill, Roma, 2014);\u00a0Giorgio Griffa<\/em>\u00a0(Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, 2014);\u00a0A retrospective 1968-2014<\/em>\u00a0(Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain, Gen\u00e8ve, 2015);\u00a0Painting in the fold<\/em>\u00a0(Bergen Kusthall, Bergen, 2015);\u00a0The 1970\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0(Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2016);\u00a0Works on paper\u00a0<\/em>(Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, 2016);\u00a0Giorgio Griffa<\/em>\u00a0(Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Arles, 2016);\u00a0Quasi tutto<\/em>\u00a0(Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto, 2016);\u00a0Paintings 1970-1917<\/em>\u00a0(Galleria Lorcan O\u2019Neill, Roma, 2017);\u00a0Works 1972-1983<\/em>\u00a0(Annemarie Verna Gallery \u2013 Zurich);\u00a0The 1980\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0(Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2018);\u00a0A continuous becoming\u00a0<\/em>(Camden Arts Center, London, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Giorgio Griffa was born in 1936 in Turin, where he lives and works. In the sixties, during Arte Povera artistic movement in Turin and after a decade of figurative pictorial practice, Griffa approached abstract painting starting from the attendance of Filippo Scroppo’s school of painting, even if his real training occurred in contact with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1746,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1954","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}