Domenico
Grenci

Grenci's is both a declaration of continuity on the one hand and an essay of modern contamination on the other. The use of bitumen, for example, with its thick response, seems to contradict this search for expressive fluidity. Quite the opposite. The only apparently heavy imprint of bitumen adds depth and poignancy to the work, giving it a sort of further permanence after the first glance, dominated by the dilevations of the use of watercolour acrylic. Grenci combines different suggestions with wisdom and lightness: between face and matter, between revealed beauty and its origin, between matter and its transfiguration, in a contradiction of thrusts and motives, of references, quotations, allusions.

Beatrice Buscaroli (Domenico Grenci Elevatio Animae, Comune di Cesena, 2010)
 

Exhibitions

Solo show (selection)
 
2018
La fucina e lo splendore, with Giovanni Blanco, Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna (I)
 
2017
Selvatico 12 FORESTA. Pittura Natura Animale, Palazzo Pezzi, Cotignola (I)
 
2016
Sguardi/Blike, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I)
I'll be your mirror, Galerie Zulauf, Freinsheim (D)
I'll be your mirror, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano (I)
 
2015
Gli inafferrabili enigmi del volto femminile, BFMR & PARTNERS, Reggio Emilia (I)
 
2013
Profilature, Catania Art Gallery (I)
Canto di Lontananze, for Visionnaire Home Phylosophy, I Saloni Fair, Milano (I)
 
2012
Solitudini di Venere, Galleria Movimento Arte Contemporanea, Milano (I)
 
2011
Canto di lontananze, Magazzini del Sale, Galleria L'Immagine, Cervia (I)
 
2010
Elevatio Animae, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Palazzo del Ridotto, Galleria L'Immagine, Cesena (I)
 
2009
Works, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Centre Leonardo da Vinci, Montreal, Canada (QC)
 
 
Group show (selection)

2016
LAND Emilia, Reggio Emilia (I)
Di incanti e di Follia, l'Arte Contemporanea legge l'Ariosto”, Palazzo Pretorio, Sondrio (I)
Biennale disegno di Rimini, Cantiere Disegno, Rimini (I)

2015
Pensiero Ruvido, Russi, Ravenna (I)
L'Orlando Furioso: incantamenti, passioni e follie. L'arte contemporanea legge l'Ariosto, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia (I)

2014
Una solitudine troppo rumorosa, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano (I)
Muse inquietanti, ritratte da uomini inquieti, Galleria Goethe, Bolzano (I)
Paesaggi mai visti, Spazio Vibra, Ravenna (I)

2013
Altrove, Catania Art Gallery, Catania (I)
Feminine, Wunderkammer 3.0, Visionnaire Home Philosophy, Milano (I)

2012
Selvatico. Spore. [due] e Bianca. Una parola diversa per dire latte, Bagnacavallo Ravenna (I)
Le arti alla fine del mondo, Biennale Chiese Laiche, Sala della Manica Lunga, Ravenna (I)
Wunderkammer 2.0, Visionnaire Home Philosophy, Milano (I)

2011
Lascia un segno, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (I)
Illuminazioni, 54a Biennale di Venezia, Pad. Italia/Accademie, Venezia (I)
Essence, Galleria d'Arte Eleonora D'Andrea, Prato (I)
 

Biography

Domenico Grenci was born in Ardore in 1981. He has participated in numerous awards, among them: Prize for the engraving "Morandi" (2005), SAMP Prize (2006) and Celeste Prize (2007). In 2007 he received the first Goldener Kentaur: European Academic Award in Monaco and the following year "Maggio Fiorito" in Cento in Ferrara, plus the National Arts Award in Catania. Since 2008 his works are on permanent exhibition in the hall of Tetrapack's world headquarters in Modena. In 2011 he was invited to the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale, in the Arsenale, Tese di San Cristoforo. He lives and works in Bologna.