Domenico
Grenci

Domenico Grenci's painting projects us towards the urgency of an intimate dialogue, which probes the sense of incompleteness of the existential condition in relation to the origin of all things: nature in relation to the human.

In recent years, alongside his more consolidated research on the face, other presences emerge, natural elements such as flowers and plants but also objects and visions that trigger a profound dialogue giving us back a residual pluralism, shadows or existences that scrutinize that loneliness that emerges every day from a network of immaterial and changing images of the world.

“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)

Biography

Domenico Grenci was born in Ardore, Italy, in 1981. Lives and works in Bologna, Italy.

Exhibitions

Among the main solo shows we remember:

2024
Light Years, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro (I)

2022
non ancora buio, come labili nebbie vespertine quando caduto è il sole, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan (I)

2018
La fucina e lo splendore, con Giovanni Blanco, Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna (I)

2017
Selvatico 12 FORESTA. Pittura Natura Animale, Palazzo Pezzi, Cotignola (I)

2016
Sguardi/Blicke, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I)
I'll be your mirror, Galerie Zulauf, Freinsheim (D)
Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan (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, Milan (I)

2012
Solitudini di Venere, Galleria Movimento Arte Contemporanea, Milan (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 (CAN)

He also took part to several group exhibition:

2021
Come isole nel mare, Domenico Grenci | Giovanni Blanco, galleria Soqquadro, Ragusa (I)

2020
Art Figurativa, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (D)
Hypotesis, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano (I)
ART SPACES- nuclear decommissioning, curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, Venice, Praga, Bratislava and Vienna
B-Archive, Archivio Biennale Disegno, Rimini (I)
Inventario Varoli, della copia e dell'ombra, Museo Civico Luigi Varoli, Cotignola (I)

2019
La Fucina e lo Splendore, Domenico Grenci e Giovanni Blanco, Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna (I)
Selvatico/12, Foresta, pittura, animale. Museo Luigi Varoli, Cotignola (I)
LAND/Emilia, Rubiera (I)

2018
ART SPACES- nuclear decommissioning: science at the service of future generations, Castello di Masnago, Varese (I)

2017
Sequela, Ex Chiesa di San Mattia, Bologna (I)

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, Milan (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, Milan (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, Milan (I)

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