Giovanni Greco

Born in Catania (Sicily), he encountered the term "metaphysics" during his school years thanks to his art history teacher. Everything remained trapped and preserved in his memory, and everything revolved around the "ενδον εξω" (endon exo), which he deepened over the years with recurring research and study of painting techniques, not unrelated to the experience he found in Franco Piruca, Nino Panarello, and Alberto Abate, fellow countrymen and fellow citizens of Giovanni Greco, where he highlighted the concept of "νου`ς" in the sense of having grasped surrealist/metaphysical thought.
An artist and amateur photographer, he trained in the 1990s in Catania.
After completing his art studies and furthering his biology studies, he attended the School of Nude Painting in Catania and in the early 1990s began his painting career, driven by a profound reflection on life and seeking to interpret the sometimes ineffable "thought" as a means to shed new light on the fundamental problems our minds constantly struggle to free themselves from. More specifically, he aimed to represent a permanent revolt against the clichés of an existence overwhelmed and crushed by time and the transience of life, staging visual blackmail, blackmail of the soul. Dur...

Istituto Statale Arte
Scuola Libera del Nudo - Accademia BB.AA. Catania e Roma

Group Exhibitions
2026 - Free Forms - Indipendent Artists Gallery - Milano
2025 - 2^ Biennale di Messina
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 – Ga...