Elena Greggio was born
in Padua, Italy, in 1973.
She graduated at the Accademy
of Fine Arts of Venice (1995,
Paintings section) with the highest marks.
Her final thesis was on G. Klimt and the Wiener Secession.
She got a diploma as Interior
Designer with the European Social Found
(1998).
She studied at the Faculty of Archaeology at the University
of Padua.
She lives and works in Padua where she dedicates herself to Paintings and Engravings.
About me
I begun drawing and painting when I was a child and since then I never stopped doing it.
After years of discoveries and experimentations, at about fifteen years of age, I found the pictorial structure and the themes which characterise me still today.
My imagery is inhabited by static human pictures, above all women, surrounded by vivid colourful enviroments, often flat, mystical and surreal.
Those elements are defined by a calibrated black outline, which is present in all of my works.
It seems to me a bit unnatural to describe my style, but I can recognize myself in these words that Peter Goodfellow wrote about me:
"The painting are very singular but there is a strong female iconography
common to them all. They are painted in acrylic with a flat graphic
technique.
If you can imagine Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession locked up in a room
with the designer of 60's psychedelic album covers and a russian icon painter
from the 17th century pooling their talents- this would be the result."
Exhibitions
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
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1999
1998
1997
1996
1994
1989