Giorgio Griffa Tutti i Pensieri di Tutti. All the Thoughts of All

That the title of this exhibition, All the Thoughts of All, should come from a poetic text written specially by Giorgio Griffa after having accepted the invitation for a solo exhibition at Palazzo Collicola (a first draft of the text was written in August 2019) is particularly significant, both culturally and aesthetically.
Griffa masterfully brings together painting and concept, contemporaneity and tradition, through a conception of modernity that connects him directly to Matisse, through the color field painting of Morris Louis, all the way back to Paleolithic Man, as the title of one of his many insightful writings reads. An artist who could interestingly be paralleled with Sol LeWitt (of whom Griffa has written, "Sol LeWitt's painting is spread on the walls in the memory, I believe, of the great beloved season of Italian fresco painting"), one of the founders of conceptual and minimalist art, who turned first the line, and then color into the alphabet of his secular/sacred representation. Against the backdrop of LeWitt's wall drawing Bands of Color #951, executed in 2000 at Palazzo Collicola, the exhibition of Griffa's canvases and papers becomes a sort of pictorial unfolding, a natural continuation of the sensory and chromatic means of modernity.