Giorgio Griffa

The outspoken Italian painter turns 70 this year, and here publishes 70 drawings together with his reflections. "These notes are for those who think my painting is a more or less elegant exercise in decorative aestheticism. I would like to tell them that I believe and trust in the lyrical value of color and signs, but I do not think of painting...as an escape from reality, a free zone. Just the opposite: I believe art continues to be a tool of awareness and therefore of immersion in reality."