Donna su fondo corallo (2003) Painting by Lucio Greco

Lucio Greco art is involving, charming and troubling. He comes from Napoli
but he lives in Bologna - ITALY. He is not forty yet but he bewilders us, he stirs
us with deep synthesis of many materials, which consist of wire-nettings,
golden threads, plaster relieves and which show a pure and uncontaminated
eulogy to femininity.

He uses vibrating and coloured strokes as subtle musical chords, in order to
present us an enchanting beauty which sometimes is unpleasant, sometimes
provoking, sometimes austerely nice in the royal fixity of the gaze, and
which changes the poor roughness of the employed materials into something
magnificently golden.

The image from far off seduces us because of the completeness of the light
and shade, which is plastically set by levels of colour drown close the one
to the others. At close quarter, the image fades away and we just look to
specks of colour which animate the chalky bracket and the wire-netting. This
is the result of a study at the computer of a photograph, which is the
starting point for the artists research. This last one will be later
enlarged by personal and original speculation.

The computer inquiry of a photograph reveals a deep study of the volumes
divided into levels, with colour shades which are deeper where there is the
shade and which grade down to the lighter tones which are the brighter parts
of the image.

In this way interesting and fascinating chromatic maps show a clear
influence of the physical maps with the difference that where there are the
plains we find lightness and where the mountains we discover the shades.

At close quarter the uniformity disappears, the drawing looses his wonderful
incisiveness and the gradual colours seem chromatic mixtures; if we go far
away we can see how the painting gets value in its whole; we discover the
play of light, the hair, the gazes and the brilliant sense of volume, which
is rhythmically stresses by a crescendo of tonal steps.

The space links these precious and ephemeral feminine figures with the
material concreteness of the bracket, of the chalk, of the sacking. These
corroborate the intrinsic value of this suggestively informal art, which is
moreover defined as charming, neo-expressionist and an overbearingly and
dynamically self-made art.

Vladimiro Zocca writes: Lucio Greco makes the feminine images real and he
throws them into a soft liberty atmosphere, full of passionate and
mediterranean decadence. His art follows the deep decoration of the Klimt of
the secession period , who through the feminine poetry shows the real woman,
made up of skin and bright flesh and of fascination which is softened by
dignity. This artists excellent production always arouse greater approval
between the astonished public.

Maria Pia Romano

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists