Xavier Hufkens presents Luce buio, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition of work by Italian abstract artist Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936, Turin). From his early linear paintings of the mid-1960s to his most recent creations, the exhibition explores five decades of the artist’s oeuvre and poetry.

As profoundly interconnected mechanisms for understanding nature and humanity, Griffa has always highlighted his ambition for bringing new meanings and learning.

As he himself once said, “I do not represent anything, I paint.” This act of painting — using the lightest of all touches and ultra-fluid acrylic pigments remains a tool for transmission, a way of articulating a deeply humanistic worldview connected to every other field of knowledge.

Through the most recent works, Griffa references Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, whom the artist has long admired. We get close to the ideas embodied in the oeuvre: “For the pattern is new in every moment / And every moment is a new and shocking / Valuation of all we have been […] And so each venture / Is a new beginning.” The show is on view until 5 November in Brussels, Belgium.

Image: HV-studio. Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.