I was born in Florence on 18/06/1961, and I had a
scientific high school diploma. I graduated in Civil Urban Engineering from the
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
I have spent thirty years working as a project manager
of large architectural works. During the lockdown of March 2020, I resumed
drawing and painting in the free time available from a hard smart-working job
that I was doing in full stress regime at that time. Fountain pen and brush
were therapeutic tools of great help at that time and then never left me again,
fueled by a gradually growing passion.
For 40 years I have lived in Rome and the inability to
live and enjoy this city, due to the Covid emergency, has increased in me the
love and desire to live it again and fully. I began, therefore, a journey of
sketching and working in watercolor to represent the joy, colors and movement
that permeates the streets, alleys, glimpses and Squares in the
everyday normality.
I let the fountain pen run along with the brush, to
hint, sketch and mark the most evocative architectural elements and people,
fundamental protagonists of my intepretations.
I have posted and I am posting my works on these Facebook groups:
Urban Sketcher (Group); Urban Sketcher Italy ;
International Artists ; Watercolors
that Passion ; Etchr Studio Fam; AMARTé; Italian
Painters and Emerging Artists on the
Web; the Painters Club; Watercolor impressionist.
I also post on my instagram Account : _gioegio and on my personal website https://www.giorgiogrimaldi.com/
From October 15 to 20, 2021, I held my first solo
Vernissage at the International Art Gallery "Area Contesa Arte", Via
Margutta n. 90 in Rome, with opening during the event "Notti
Felliniane".
As of Nov. 1, 2021, I am a permanent artist at the
International Art Gallery "Area Contesa Arte" at Via Margutta No. 90
in Rome.
I received a Diploma of Honor with recommendation of
merit from the International Academy "Il Convivio"
(Verzella-Catania Dec. 28, 2021) under the Patronage of the magazine of the
same name within the framework of the Figurative Arts Award "Antonello da
Messina "VI ed. 2021.
On January 4, 2022 I held a live interview with the
facebook group "Mostrarti" Videoportrait of the Artist : link: https://www.facebook.com/mostrarti/videos/1085405965554016/
On May 29, 2022 I received the 1st prize aexequo at
the International Competition FORMA CULTURE _ Artistic-cultural Association
Forma Aps in collaboration with the municipality of Amelia (province of Terni
in Umbria) and Patronage of the Region of Umbria.
I
exhibited at the Collective Exhibition "100 artists at Palazzo Fani",
in Tuscania (VT), 16-23 July 2022, organized and managed by the
artistic-cultural Association ACTAS of Tuscania.
From
September 10 to 18 2020 I held a solo Vernissage at Palazzo Fani in
Tuscania (VT)
I
exhibited two works (ink and watercolor) at the Salon d'Automne 2022 in Paris,
Grande Hall de la Villette 20-23 October 2022 .
