Tonight on Rai5 a documentary on Alberto Savinio (and Giorgio De Chirico)

A documentary on Alberto Savinio, the great metaphysical painter and brother of Giorgio De Chirico: this is Enigma Savinio by Giuseppe Sansonna, which premieres on Rai5 tonight, Friday, March 18, at 9:15 p.m., as part of the Art Night program hosted by Neri Marcorè. What is the link that unites Alberto Savinio (Athens, 1891 - Rome, 1952) and Giorgio De Chirico (Volos, 1888 - Rome, 1978)? It is an easy question: De Chirico and Savinio are brothers. And their paintings, their enigmatic, suspended, metaphysical images, are unique. It is really worth analyzing certain links to try to understand what underlies a creative genesis. These are the themes behind Enigma Savinio, an original production by Rai Cultura.

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Alberto Savinio’s life unfolds among the most important cultural centers in Europe. Perennially searching for an environment consonant with his artistic aspirations, Giorgio De Chirico’s equally talented brother moves restlessly between cities and nations. The Greece of his birth and early childhood, shrouded in myth and epic, the Germany of his musical apprenticeship, the Paris of the avant-garde, coexist in him with a Mediterranean Italy, a homeland only partially rediscovered. In the Fascist regime, Savinio is in fact a foreign body, little usable for the purposes of consensus. In his cosmos there are no heroes all of a piece, but only myths to be revisited and deconstructed, with the sharp and ironic lightness of his pen and brush.

He also contrasts himself with the idealism, and specialism of his time. He feels himself an amateur, but not in the common sense of the term. He refers to the inexhaustible delight in creating, in measuring himself against different practices. Perhaps this is the most incisive trait of his contemporaneity. The documentary is narrated by Ester Coen, art historian; Lucia Poli, actress; Ruggero Savinio De Chirico, artist; Marco Scolastra, musician; and Alessandro Tinterri, performance historian, with readings by Elio Turno Arthemalle.

Art Night continues with De Chirico, the Sun on the Easel, a document from the Teche Rai cwith a peculiar story: we are in Giorgio De Chirico’s studio, it is 1973, and in the program How a Work of Art is Born, an extraordinary exchange of banter begins between the prickly and ironic de Chirico and the famous journalist Franco Simongini. It is in front of the RAI cameras that the painter gradually realizes his painting The Sun on the Easel, a painting that is part of the Soli Spenti series.

Art Night, hosted by Neri Marcorè, is a program by Silvia De Felice and Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, Alessandro Rossi, with direction by Andrea Montemaggiori.

In the photo: Alberto Savinio, La visite (1930)

Tonight on Rai5 a documentary on Alberto Savinio (and Giorgio De Chirico)

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