Giorgio De Chirico's art is on display in Osimo

The exhibition Giorgio De Chirico and Neometaphysics is scheduled from June 1 to November 4, 2018, at the Palazzo Campana in Osimo: curated by Vittorio Sgarbi with the collaboration of Maria Letizia Rocco and organized by the Municipality of Osimo with the participation of the Campana Institute, the Don Carlo Grillantini Foundation and the “Metamorfosi” Cultural Association, the exhibition, totally dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico (Volos, 1888 - Rome, 1978), displays a nucleus of sixty works lent by the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, all focused on the artist’s last period. These are paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic works.

“These works,” the presentation reads, “are characterized by a very happy creative vein that stages an amused representation of the same themes proposed in the early works. The subjects are the same as those represented in the Metaphysical period. They are always squares, interiors/exteriors and mannequins but everything, even the chromatism and the construction of space, is able to trigger cognitive and empathic calls of a happier and almost ironic nature. A new and mature dimension in which the artist consciously plays at declining his immense universe of images, in the light of a poetics that translates the melancholy of the somber tones of the early period with vast backgrounds of vivid tones. This new awareness, is renewed forge of the same themes that have always inspired the Master: Greek mythology, the deep study of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, his experiences inextricably linked with some Italian cities. Following his idea of inverted perspective and circular time in the sign of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return, de Chirico rediscovers his mannequins, his archaeologists, his squares and his incongruous assemblages in a new vortex of ideas in which thought anticipates the ’conceptual’ dimension of the painting of the younger generations that have found in de Chirico a fundamental point of reference.”

The exhibition will be accompanied by a dense program of educational workshops for children and guided tours that will take the public on a discovery of the artist and his works. The exhibition opens daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. From Aug. 1 to Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 8 p.m., and from Sept. 10 to Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets: full 8 euros; reduced 6 euros for groups of more than 15, under 18, holders of special agreements, university students with ID, Osimo residents, visitors with tickets to the Osimo Caves and the Palazzo Ricci Museum in Macerata; special 4 euros for primary and secondary school groups, children aged 6 to 14; family special 20 euros valid for the admission of two adults and 2 minors (up to 14 years old); free for children up to 6 years old, one chaperone per group, disabled with chaperone, two chaperones per school group, journalists with badges, tour guides with badges.

Pictured: Giorgio de Chirico, Conversation of the Muses (1973; pencil, charcoal, watercolor on cardboard)

Giorgio De Chirico's art is on display in Osimo

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