Galleria Fumagalli, in collaboration with Spazioborgogno, presents a solo exhibition dedicated to Giorgio Griffa’s work. Born in 1936 in Torino, where he lives and works, he is one of the principal exponents of those tendency, began at the end of 1970s in Italy, called Pittura Analitica or Pittura Pittura. Griffa’s work can be assimilated in that trend, which was a returning to painting without images. However his gaze is headed also to the minimalistic painting originating in America. His first works date from 1968, 1969 and are characterized by the essentiality of the sign that leaves a minimal trace on the free canvas.

His painting is made of signs and colors, it is thought and meditated, disposed with elegant gestures and essential drawings on the canvas. Giorgio Griffa’s works are canvas without structure, where the color becomes the vehicle of an action, and the track the effect of a thought. The signs, the lines, the imprints are disposed following a rational path. The works are hung up on the walls, this departure from the classic elements of the paintings suggests an idea of transit, of scrolling, of movement, which, crossing the painting and proceeding in the space that surrounds it, gives it the quality of the finite, of the not-finite and of the infinity.

The forms, the signs he paints are free, but “closed” in a rational, minimal, synthetic plan. During the years his work has become more warm, the signs opener and more independent preferring open shapes, the signs have increased and made of different matrix. The color is more intensive, numbers in sequence and curved lines appear, elements that are not existent in the oeuvre from 1970s.