The exhibition spans the full breadth of Giorgio Griffa’s practice, bringing together highlights from the artist’s three major bodies of work: his minimal canvases of the 70s; his large gestural works from the 80s; and his lively rhythmic paintings from the last decade inspired by modernist poetry and avant-garde music.  

Giorgio Griffa (Turin, 1936) is one of the most radical and articulate artists of the avant-garde working in Italy today. This exhibition, entirely of work from the past year, displays an astonishing burst of creative and intellectual energy that has produced a series of paintings on unstretched canvas unified by references to the Golden Mean (Canone Aureo).

Abstract painter Giorgio Griffa, closely linked to the Arte Povera movement, first became known in the 1960s as part of an Italian generation of artists who sought to radically redefine painting. At the age of 81, Griffa continues to make work in his studio in Turin. This exhibition at the Camden Arts Cenre in London spans the breadth of the artist’s practice, incorporating works from the 1960s through to today.