EXHIBITION
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
A rational search for the knowledge of the irrational … This is the meaning that metaphysics takes in contact with Giorgio de Chirico. His work suspects the subliminal reality of our world and lays the foundations for a new aesthetic.
Born in Greece in 1888 to Italian parents, Giorgio de Chirico is inevitably influenced by classical culture. In 1908, he discovered German Romanticism while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Conquered by the thought of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, this aerial spirit never ceases to seek a meaning beyond the manifesto.
His first artistic creations seduced the personalities of his time – the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, the merchant Paul Guillaume, but also André Breton, Paul Eluard and Jean Paulhan. De Chirico fascinates and intrigues with his headless mannequins, unusual objects and strange beings who rub shoulders with classic cultures.
Before Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico experimented with the plasticity of time in works that challenge our spatio-temporal benchmarks. Our gaze is lost in perspectives punctuated by arcades, in a desert atmosphere – mysteriously familiar. Jean Cocteau will describe him as a “change of scenery”.
The Orangery Museum offers an exhibition that explores the painter’s “metaphysical” period in the 1910s, during which his artistic and philosophical influences sublimate his imagination. From Munich to Ferrara, passing through Turin and Paris, to meet the European artistic avant-garde, Giorgio de Chirico follows in the wake of Arthur Rimbaud, “seeing through a long, immense and reasonable disturbance of all the senses. “.
A metempirical experience not to be missed …
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Date | : | From September 16, 2020 to December 14, 2020 |
Address | : | Jardin des Tuileries – Côté Seine, 75 001 Paris |