Italian painter Giorgio Griffa’s artworks are on display in Portugal for the first time in Porto’s Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves. The anthology, entitled “Quasi tutto” (Almost everything), was organised by the museum in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The exhibition consists of a vast selection of more than 40 paintings and some 50 drawings made between 1969 and 2015.
Primarily focused on Griffa’s abstract artwork, the exhibition reveals the artist’s commitment to painting, which he viewed as a cumulative process within a larger physical and metaphysical realm. Born in 1936 in Turin, where he still lives and works, Griffa is among the most important and original representatives of experimental contemporary painting from the 1960s to date at international level. The exhibition was opened in May with a chat between Griffa and its two curators, Suzanne Cotter, director of the Museu de Serralves, and Andrea Bellini, director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva. It will run until 4 September.
