Giorgio Griffa was born in Turin in 1936, and he still lives and works there.
He's one of the main exponents of a movement that started by the end of the '60s, called Pittura Analitica or Pittura Pittura. His paintings are made up of signs and colors, thought and meditated, full of refined gestures that leave essential traces on canvas. Giorgio Griffa's works are made up of canvas without frames, on which colors become the means of an action, and traces become the effects of thought. Works are hung directly from parts, so this separation from the classic elements of painting suggest an idea of transit, of flow, of movement and, by passing through paintings and then through the surrounding space, it gives a sense of finite of non-finite and of infinite.

Other than his participation in numerous national and international exhibitions devoted to aniconic painting, it's worth mentioning, among his most important presentations, his solo room at the Venice Biennial in 1980 and his participation in the exhibition Astratta in 1988, presented by Palazzo Forti, in Verona. In 1991, an extensive retrospective was presented at the Pinacoteca Comunale of Ravenna. In November 2001 and in January 2002, the GAM of Turin presented two important exhibitions. In the first one, introducing his works from 1968 to 1973 and in the second one, presenting a series of works that belong to the rosa e violetto cycle. His relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1995, when his one-man show was presented and a catalogue with texts by Giovanni Maria Accame was published. Still in 1995, Galleria Fumagalli cured the edition Di segno in segno, with texts by Griffa and Martina Corgnati, on the occasion of an exhibition at Palazzo Recanati-Arroni in Spoleto. The cooperation with the artist still continues and the proof is a volume that is about to be published, dedicated to Giorgio Griffa's work from 1968 to 1980. The book, with texts by Marco Meneguzzo and Luca Massimo Barbero, will be presented along with the exhibitions that will take place in 2005: at the Institute Mathildenhöe in Darmstadt, at the Kunsthalle in Aschaffengurg and at the Museo della Permanente in Milan.