The gravitational center of the exhibition is composed of a core of masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical period (1909-1919).
Pictorial translation of the sensitivity and the particular view of life gained by the artist through the reading of Nietzsche, the poetic metaphysics is recognized as reflecting the mood of an entire century. Alienation and loneliness. Sense of abandonment, isolation, anxiety and despair: De Chirico avant lettre port to the depiction of the “great silence” generated by the first war. Famous artists and poets will immediately recognize in the alienating and enigmatic vision of the world and in the representation of things extraordinarily lucid and penetrating. De Chirico’s language becomes indispensable starting point for finding diverse artists, from the Met to Surrealism.

The exhibition, with the group of masterpieces of De Chirico’s metaphysical talk then works of René Magritte and Balthus, and other artists like Max Ernst, Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi in many ways that drew the lesson De Chirico. The intent is not only to capture stylistic kinship and affinity form, as to reveal unpublished correspondence of themes, subjects, of sensibility.

Responsible for the scientific project Guido Magnaguagno are among the curators of the exhibition celebrated Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, held in 1998 in Zurich, Monaco and Berlin and Paolo Baldacci and Gerd Roos, editor of the monograph devoted to De Chirico in 2007 in Padua . The Scientific Committee is composed of leading experts of the artists surveyed.

Opening: February 25, 17:30

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