<strong>Giorgio Griffa</strong> was born in Turin in 1936, the city where he still lives and works today. Turin has served as the fertile ground for the genesis of one of the most coherent and revolutionary paths in contemporary Italian art. An undisputed leader of the <strong>Pittura Analitica</strong> movement (also known as <em>Pittura-Pittura</em>), Griffa has redefined the concept of the pictorial surface, liberating it from the constraints of representation and narrative to restore it to its purest essence: color, sign, and support. Griffa’s artistic development took place within the vibrant cultural climate of 1960s Turin, a period deeply marked by the <em>Arte Povera</em> movement. However, his research took an autonomous direction. The turning point arrived in 1968 with his first solo exhibition at the <strong>Galleria Martano</strong>, where he presented works that broke away from both figurative and abstract-informal traditions. His practice strips away the superfluous: the ...