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It opens, on 26th February 2010, an interesting exhibition of paintings which
focuses on the masterpieces of the metaphysical period (1909-1919) by Giorgio
De Chirico, the principal exponent of the art movement called metaphysical painting.
Among the works in this exhibition is important to point out the famous “L’Enigme
d’un après-midi d’automne”, painted during his stay in Florence and during which
he has revealed the mysterious relationship between the things and the world.
Will be also an important part of the great exhibition, next to the marvellous
works by the great Italian artist, the works of René Magritte and Balthus that
in a one way or another have reached the metaphysical poetry of De Chirico.
The exhibition is entitled “The Silence of the World” and intends to seize unpublished
connections between De Chirico and the other artists in exhibition, themes and
entities generated by the first war, during which De Chirico port to the depiction
of the “great silence” meant as a sense of abandonment, isolation, anxiety and
despair.
Giorgio De Chirico was born in Volos in 1888 and since his childhood he was obviously
interested in painting. Around 1909 De Chirico began to emerge himself to the
metaphysical poetry: that art able to govern and transform the emotions and the
unconscious; in the same period he came into contact in Paris with important artists
such as Gauguin who influenced him on his first performances indoor the Italian
squares. Always during on the so-called metaphysical period his fame spread but
he failed to obtain the same economic success. It was right in this period that
he began to paint his famous dummies. During the First World War, Giorgio and
his brother have been voluntarily recruited and sent to Ferrara when in this occasion
he was able to renew his paintings, after an initial period of disorientation:
his painting were represented by paints of still life with geometric symbols,
biscuits and breads instead of its traditional large sunny squares. Giorgio de
Chirico died, then, in Rome on 20 November 1978.
For further information about Giorgio De Chirico, please visit the official website
dedicated to the great Italian artist: www.dechirico.org
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