In Milan, the great exhibition on Giorgio de Chirico, at Palazzo Reale

Opening to the public from Sept. 25, 2019, to Jan. 19, 2020, is the de Chirico exhibition, a monographic exhibition dedicated to Giorgio De Chirico (Volos, 1888 - Rome, 1978) in the rooms of Palazzo Reale in Milan, which thus return to host the works of this great artist almost fifty years after his 1970 solo show. The exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, is promoted and produced by Comune di Milano-Cultura, Palazzo Reale, Marsilio and Electa, in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico and Barcor17 srl.

The itinerary is composed of previously unseen comparisons and important masterpieces that aim to reveal the “phantasmic” world of one of the most complex artistic figures of the 20th century. The exhibition aims to offer the key to access a hermetic painting that has its roots in the Greece of childhood, matures in the Paris of the avant-garde, gives birth to the Metaphysics that bewitches the Surrealists and conquers Andy Warhol and, finally, wreaks havoc with its irreverent as much as ironic reinterpretations of the Baroque.

Coming to Milan is a body of works with loans from major international museums including London’s Tate Modern, New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Rome’s Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM), Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Houston’s The Menil Collection and São Paulo’s MAC USP in Brazil. There are also numerous institutions in Milan: the Museo del Novecento, the Casa MuseoBoschi di Stefano, the Pinacoteca di Brera and Villa Necchi Campiglio. Divided into eight rooms, the exhibition proceeds by themes thought of as being in a chain of visual reactions that, as de Chirico wrote in 1918, chase “the demon in everything [...] the eye in everything [because] We are explorers ready for other departures.”

“With this exhibition, Palazzo Reale proposes a lunge on an extraordinary painter whose unmistakable stylistic signature marked the art of the last century, inspiring many artists, on both sides of the ocean,” says Councilor Filippo Del Corno. “The high quality of the scientific curatorship, the care of the setting up and the dialogue between the works, and the collaboration with the most important national and international museums now constitute a model for the realization of Milanese exhibitions, which prove to be increasingly attractive, not only for specialists but also for all art lovers who, as the numbers show, come in increasing numbers from all over Italy and the world.”

Pictured: Giorgio de Chirico, Orfeo trovatore stanco (1970; oil on canvas, 149 x 147 cm)

In Milan, the great exhibition on Giorgio de Chirico, at Palazzo Reale

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