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Giorgio Griffa (1936) is an Italian artist; he lives and works in Turin. He became known in the late 60s for his paintings reduced to their essential components: canvas, colours and brushstrokes. His work plays with rhythm through sequences of minimal gestures on unstretched canvases, simply folded when not exhibited. The grid created through constantly folding them becomes part of the paintings’ pattern, producing works that combine avant-garde and tradition, simplicity and complexity, structure and lyricism.
Giorgio Griffa’s exhibition at the Centre d’Art Contemporain will be conceived as a retrospective covering the different stages of his work, from the horizontal lines which he is renowned for since 1968 to his Alter Ego pieces dedicated to different artists of the recent or distant past; from Arabesco, a sequence of numbered works from the 90s, to his more recent paintings.