| Great exhibition of painting at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence: De Chirico, Magritte, Balthus – The silence of the World. |
| From 26th February 2010 to 18th July 2010 |
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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 The exhibition is entitled “The Silence of the World” and intends to seize unpublished connections between De Chirico and the other artists in exhibition, themes and entities generated by the first war, during which De Chirico port to the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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