I don’t represent anything. I paint. It is paint that has to speak, not me.

In 1936 Giorgio Griffa was born in Torino, who had a close relationship with painting since he was a kid, while studying from different artists in Circolo degli Artisti of his city. Even so, he completed his degree in law in 1958, practicing since then his profession of lawyer. The connection with abstract elements in his painting came in the mid-1960s, shortly after he was a student of the abstract painter Filippo Scroppo, with whom he was from 1960 to 1963.

From this moment his trajectory is associated with reflection on the state of painting, its tools and the artist condition. Griffa seeks the formal essence of painting through works that prove its artificial condition. Later, he got in touch with Art Povera through Gallery Seprone, with whom you will be associated regularly, in the same way that with Pittura Pittura and Minimalism. But it is difficult to establish Griffa in a concrete art movement because his career is practically solitary. The artist, who considers himself a traditional painter, tries to put painting in the center of art, because it is the genre that better translates the emotional and rational impulses of artists.

We can find his work at several museums of Italian art, like Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma or Rivoli’s castle in Torino, as well as in other countries, like Tate Modern in England or Centre d’Art Contemporain in Switzerland. In addition, he has exhibited in a lot of European and North American galleries.