Those who know me well know that I am a generally shy person. My acquaintances are rather limited; few friends, very few outings. I feel good closed in my family, surrounded by sincere love.
A sort of "social agoraphobia", in short.
Nonetheless, I met so many people. But there are very few that I have retained so that they would not be lost over time.
One of these is Giorgio Bo.
And today I will tell you about him.
A true friend
We met as kids, I was a guitarist and he was a singer and although that musical context has now faded over time, thanks to our mutual friend Alex Master (pseudonym and nickname), we have never stopped meeting sporadically in what we like to call " Philosophical dinners”, where we discuss various topics; realistic, surreal and exquisitely theoretical.
I love our dinners. They are always an opportunity for discussion, and despite our passionate way of expressing ideas (that's how we are), it always proves to be an opportunity for growth, for ideas for new reflections.
But who is Giorgio Bo?
Let me take it from afar.
Raised by a painter mother, Natalizia Bo, an esteemed artist of European fame.
His "playroom" is his mother's laboratory, full of the smells of tempera and linseed oil that hover unchallenged among bright colors and figures, among easels and canvases.
Already in his pre-adolescent age he showed a particular attraction for black ink, through which he made the first archetypal forms flow, developing and improving his own technique that would distinguish him throughout his artistic career. He paints with acrylics on canvas and then moves on to oils and later experiments with industrial materials such as asphalt, resins and vitrifiers.
He recently developed a technique of inks on photographic paper, which led him to focus on the process of creating vaguely anthropomorphic figures, which he believes is a flow connected to the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
In September 2022 he was the undisputed winner in the international artistic exhibition "Defense of the infantile environment" in Turin with the abstract work "Lacuriosity", where the art critic Guido Folco awarded him the first prize and wrote about him:
“Giorgio Bo is a valid researcher of emotion, of a moment of life captured and fixed on the canvas. An excellent colourist, Bo tells his world through a pictorial and sign alphabet typical of the great international abstractionism and graffiti art, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Keith Haring. The mixed technique, created with infinite interweavings and immediate and dynamic chromatic superstructures, becomes an intense and vehement expressive language, rich in symbols and resolved with the strength of gesture and colour. The compositions are often crossed by thick black lines, which create paintings within paintings, sequential scenes that the observer can read by letting himself be led by the skilful compositional structure of the paintings. The use of the chosen paper as a support brings us back to an instinctive art-making, with which the artist expresses himself in the most true and direct way, making the work come alive with bright and vibrant quavers, with allusive and ironic, sometimes contemptuous painting. and of denunciation against the evils of the world, in its ever-present conceptuality. Giorgio Bo is therefore an artist who knows the past and reinterprets it originally with his own unique and powerful language.”
You can admire his works here: https://giorgio-bo-atelier.company.site
We are waiting for the next “Philosophical Dinner”
Last time, a future was hypothesized in which machines would meet every need, leaving us free to live our lives as we wish.
The idea excited him, I was more sceptical. I didn't question the future capacity of machines, but I expressed doubts about human nature. From my point of view, such a condition would relegate the human being to a position of blackmail. I don't like feeling completely dependent on a higher government that has the power to cut off my food if I "don't be good."
Then we talked about the novel I'm writing: “Agoraphobia”, which is scheduled to be published at the end of 2023.
Alex Master proposed a way to make tons of money, but we rejected it.
I don't know what topic will be covered at the next dinner, but it will certainly be interesting. We are imaginative characters.
In case we are unable to organize a dinner soon, Alex Master and I will pop into his restaurant " Prog ", where Giorgio transforms into an alchemist every evening to the delight of our palates.
http://www.progmilano.it/
