Giovanni Guida

Giovanni Guida
File:Apotheosis, grattage su tela, opera dell'artista Giovanni Guida.jpg File:Apotheosis, grattage su tela, opera dell'artista Giovanni Guida.jpg Apotheosis, grattage on canvas
Born	(1992-10-12)12 October 1992 Acerra, Italy
🏳️ Nationality	Italian
💼 Occupation
Known for	grattage
Movement	abstract art

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Giovanni Guida (born 1992) is an Italian artist, painter and illustrator. His pictorial works are made with the technique of grattage.

Biography

Giovanni Guida was born in Acerra but grew up in Cesa, Caserta. In 2015, he graduated with honors in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.

Soffio vitale, grattage and frottage on graphia, 2014

Dionysus, grattage - oil painting on canvas, 2014

His painting is based on the dynamic value of the 'sign', with soft and sinuous lines that intertwine and intersect each other. He deepens his research on color and light, moving towards an abstract art, through the surrealist techniques of grattage and frottage (which underline the importance of the tension between gesture and plasticity within the creative process). For this method of work, he makes use of new tools, experimenting with common utensils and everyday objects, such as sponges, steel brushes, and small metal blocks. His investigation penetrates the "skin" of the painting (up to the bottom of "bowels") and captures its intimate essence in the luminous fragmentation of the color. He aims to respond to the unexpected signs and shapes created by the plot, scraping away the paint, almost ripping the "Veil of Maya" that covers the essence of things (reference to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer). In his refined "grattages" (characterized by the removal of the still fresh paint on the canvas) the deep scratches created bring out the bright colors of the underlying pictorial layers and create chromatic and chiaroscuro contrasts.

Magnificat, grattage on canvas, 2018

Illustration God fights the Coronavirus above the world, grattage on graphia, 2020

In 2016–2017, his painting "Caesarius Diaconus" (icon of Caesarius of Terracina, tutelary saint of Roman emperors) was exhibited in famous museums, cathedrals and basilicas in the world (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Corsica, Germany, United States of America, England, Israel, Philippines, Croatia and Slovakia).

In 2018, his painting "Apotheosis" was published on the cover of the catalog of the Public Library of Valencia for the Festival of Philosophy and Literature Avivament.

On 1 May 2019, he won the competition "Faces of politics", organized by the Valenzi Foundation (an institution of International relevance), with the illustration "Diarchia: the embrace between Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio".

In March 2020, his illustration "God fights the Coronavirus above the world in order to end the Covid-19 pandemic" (And you'll be cured of all diseases.. and I'll take care of you) had gone viral and it was published in many important newspapers. The illustration is inspired by the fresco "The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants" by Michelangelo Buonarroti - part of the decoration of the vault of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican - and to the text of Italian song "La cura" by Franco Battiato.

In 2020 he created the work "Apotheosis of Dante Alighieri in Florence: the Love that moves the sun and the other stars" on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Italian poet, writer and politician (1321-2021).

His illustrations have been published in many important newspapers: Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Treccani Encyclopedia, La Stampa, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Mattino, Il Messaggero, Avvenire, L'Osservatore Romano, Il Foglio, Il Secolo XIX, Leggo, La Nazione, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Messaggero Veneto, Famiglia Cristiana, Gente, La Voce di New York, The Epoch Times, Le Républicain Lorrain.

Exhibitions

Barcelona, Museu Frederic Marès, the director dr. Josep Maria Trullén next to the icon Caesarius Diaconus, 2017

• "Caesarius Diaconus", Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin (by the director Dr. Sabine Thümmler); Museu Frederic Marès in Barcelona (by the director Dr. Josep Maria Trullén, art historian); Museum of São Roque in Lisbon (by deputy director Dr. João Miguel Ferreira Antunes Simões, art historian);

  

  Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, the director Dr. Sabine Thümmler next to the icon Caesarius Diaconus, 2016

  

  Manila Cathedral, the cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle next to the icon Caesarius Diaconus, 2016

  Slovak National Museum - Historical Museum of Bratislava (by the art historian Dr. Alena Piatrová, curator of the Crafts of the Historické múzeum SNM, Bratislava); Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem (by Stéphane Milovitch, director of the Cultural Heritage Office of the Custody of the Holy Land); Der Stiftsschatz St. Peter und Alexander im Stiftsmuseum in Aschaffenburg; Musée Européen de la Visitation in Moulins (by deputy director Dr. Jean Foisselon, art historian); Sistine Chapel of the Seille in Sillegny; Diocesan Museum of Monreale; Museums of the Cathedral of Modena (by Archbishop Erio Castellucci); Museum of San Fedele in Milan; St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo (by bishop Richard Joseph Malone); Glastonbury Abbey; Saint Anthony's Chapel in Pittsburgh; St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque; Manila Cathedral (by the cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, President of Caritas Internationalis and Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples); Essen Cathedral; Basilica St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne; Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome; Papal Chapel of Sancta Sanctorum - Holy Stairs in Saint John Lateran, Rome; Naples Cathedral; Basilica of San Frediano in Lucca), 2016–2017.
• "Seven Works of Mercy", Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, 6–18 April 2018.
• "Faces of politics', Museum PAN, Naples, 1–19 May 2019.
• "Art & Wellness Festival", Museum PAN, Naples, November 23–December 1, 2019.

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