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Italy |
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Pisa |
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Montecatini val di Cecina |
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loc. Puntoncino |
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56040 |
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http://www.giovannigreppi.it/ |
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Milan |
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1963-10-27 |
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3356179578 |
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I’ve been painting nature as if water, air, leaves, human beings all mingle in a reality that is intertwined intimately were ALL THINGS ARE THE SAME. All things ARE the same in any given moment in time, as we as receivers, interpreters, viewers feel with a constant, fundamentally equal emotion and inside realm, which is our real reality; its what we are and know. Reality and truth, art history's fundamental quest ?
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Giovanni Greppi was born, as both man and artist, in a context of great social dynamism, of international exchanges, favourable to both new encounters and experiences.
When he was 18 years old, whilst studying in Switzerland, he became the assistant to Giovanni Gastel, one of the most refined and prestigious fashion photographers, three years later he met Gianni Dova of the nuclearist and spatialist movement and frequented his Milanese atelier from 1984 to 1986, exploring with him techniques and fervour in contemporary art.
In the following two years he moved to Florence, specialising in the restoration of antique paintings in a notable laboratory of antique art and, at the same time, following a course of etching at the renowned ‘Il Bisonte’, the only studio in Italy where Pablo Picasso had worked. At that time, he had, as his tutor, Swietlan Kratcyna, a few years later he himself became a teacher.
From 1990 to ‘91 he alternated between Florence; where he perfected his knowledge of photo etching with Luis Camnitzer, the Uruguayan artist with a strong commitment to the civil rights movement; New York, where he collected a wide range of photographs and material destined to form the nucleus of his later work ‘La Pietà’ and Lake Como, where he ran courses and workshops for artists. In 1991 to ‘92 he also held workshops on coloured etching techniques at Il Bisonte in Florence.
From ‘95 to ‘97 Giovanni worked above all in the USA where he organised numerous exhibitions in Miami. His artwork was in the meantime also exhibited in other parts of America and as far afield as Japan.
In 1998 one of his exhibitions in Colombia achieved wide spread acclaim in the press even though only two identical paintings were on show; the guerillas had in fact blown up the truck on which his works were being transported , save the two paintings he carried with him on his flight.
From this whirlwind of his life and experiences Giovanni began to delineate a centripetal spiral, an interior research and a focalisation that resulted , in 2003, to move definitively his home and studio into the hills and woods of Tuscany, from where he continues his research into ethics and art on themes obsessed with idealism and compassion.
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abstract, figurative, painting, realism, research |
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10 |
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