Giorgio Griffa
Biography
Giorgio Griffa is born in Turin in 1936, where he still lives and works. In 1958, he graduates in law and started working as a lawyer. In 1960 he enrolls in the private school of Filippo Scroppo, an abstract artist from Turin who has been a member of the "Movimento per l'Arte Concreta" (MAC). The works he produces in that period are all characterized by a figurative style. In the following years, he proceeds to progressively reduce the representative elements, without adopting a truly abstract style, until he produces the cycle entitled Quasi dipinto (Quasi Painting). In 1969, he begins exhibiting with the Galleria Sperone, in Turin. In 1970, his works are featured at Ileana Sonnabend's galleries in New York and Paris. In the following years, series of different signs start to coexist on the canvas. Griffa starts the series called Connessioni o Contaminazioni (Connections or Contaminations), a modified version of the previous series entitled Segni primari (Primary Signs). At the beginning of the 1990s, Griffa starts the series Tre linee con arabesco (Three Lines with Arabesque). Between the 2009 and 2010 he holds solo shows at the Museum of Baotou (Baotou, Inner Mongolia), at the Baguashan Art Gallery (Taiwan) and at the Gehua Art Gallery (Pechino).
Exhibitions (Selection)
1968 Galleria Martano, Turin | 1969 Galleria Sperone, Turin | 1970 Sonnabend Gallery, New York / Galerie Sonnabend, Paris | 1971 Galerie Ricke, Cologne | 1972 Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich | 1974 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris | 1975 Kunstraum, Munich / Galerie D, Brussels | 1976 Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf | 1978 Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf | 1979 Galerie Artline, Den Haag, The Netherlands | 1980 XXXIX Esposizione Biennale lnternazionale d'Arte, Venice | 1983 Galerie Walter Storms, Munich | 1985 Städtische Galerie im Cordonhaus, Cham, Switzerland | 1990 Galerie Appel, Frankfurt | 1995 Palazzo Racani-Aroni, Spoleto | 2001 GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Modema e Contemporanea, Turin | 2005 Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg / Museo della Permanente, Milan | 2010 Baguashan Gallery, Taiwan / Gehua Art Gallery, Beijing / BaoTou Museum, Inner Mongolia | 2011 MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome | 2012 Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin | 2012 - 2013 Fragments 1968 - 2012, Casey Kaplan, New York | 2015 Painting in the Fold, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway / A Retrospective 1968 - 2014, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland | 2016 Works on Paper, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome / Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France | 2017 Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich / Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome | 2018 A Continuous Becoming, Camden Arts Centre, London | 2021 Giorgio Griffa Merveilles de l'inconnu, LaM, 1 allée du Musée, Villeneuve d'Ascq | 2022 Giorgio Griffa, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Giorgio Griffa
Biography
Giorgio Griffa is born in Turin in 1936, where he still lives and works. In 1958, he graduates in law and started working as a lawyer. In 1960 he enrolls in the private school of Filippo Scroppo, an abstract artist from Turin who has been a member of the "Movimento per l'Arte Concreta" (MAC). The works he produces in that period are all characterized by a figurative style. In the following years, he proceeds to progressively reduce the representative elements, without adopting a truly abstract style, until he produces the cycle entitled Quasi dipinto (Quasi Painting). In 1969, he begins exhibiting with the Galleria Sperone, in Turin. In 1970, his works are featured at Ileana Sonnabend's galleries in New York and Paris. In the following years, series of different signs start to coexist on the canvas. Griffa starts the series called Connessioni o Contaminazioni (Connections or Contaminations), a modified version of the previous series entitled Segni primari (Primary Signs). At the beginning of the 1990s, Griffa starts the series Tre linee con arabesco (Three Lines with Arabesque). Between the 2009 and 2010 he holds solo shows at the Museum of Baotou (Baotou, Inner Mongolia), at the Baguashan Art Gallery (Taiwan) and at the Gehua Art Gallery (Pechino).
Exhibitions (Selection)
1968 Galleria Martano, Turin | 1969 Galleria Sperone, Turin | 1970 Sonnabend Gallery, New York / Galerie Sonnabend, Paris | 1971 Galerie Ricke, Cologne | 1972 Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich | 1974 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris | 1975 Kunstraum, Munich / Galerie D, Brussels | 1976 Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf | 1978 Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf | 1979 Galerie Artline, Den Haag, The Netherlands | 1980 XXXIX Esposizione Biennale lnternazionale d'Arte, Venice | 1983 Galerie Walter Storms, Munich | 1985 Städtische Galerie im Cordonhaus, Cham, Switzerland | 1990 Galerie Appel, Frankfurt | 1995 Palazzo Racani-Aroni, Spoleto | 2001 GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Modema e Contemporanea, Turin | 2005 Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg / Museo della Permanente, Milan | 2010 Baguashan Gallery, Taiwan / Gehua Art Gallery, Beijing / BaoTou Museum, Inner Mongolia | 2011 MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome | 2012 Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin | 2012 - 2013 Fragments 1968 - 2012, Casey Kaplan, New York | 2015 Painting in the Fold, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway / A Retrospective 1968 - 2014, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland | 2016 Works on Paper, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome / Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France | 2017 Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich / Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome | 2018 A Continuous Becoming, Camden Arts Centre, London | 2021 Giorgio Griffa Merveilles de l'inconnu, LaM, 1 allée du Musée, Villeneuve d'Ascq | 2022 Giorgio Griffa, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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