Giorgio De Chirico - Untitled

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. This work is inspired by Giorgio de Chirico's famous Italian Squares, a series in which the master of Metaphysical Art created urban scenes suspended in a still, timeless dimension.

De Chirico's Italian squares embody the very essence of Metaphysical Art and all its key tenets. First and foremost, that detachment from reality, a dimension where the impossible becomes plausible. In this sense, the illusionistic devices De Chirico employs in a work like this are emblematic, such as the impossible perspectives and unreal shadows. The buildings appearing in the squares derive from a taste for quotation that is typical of Metaphysical Art, and which leads De Chirico, in these works, to incorporate architectural elements typical of the Italian tradition. Rather, it is their arrangement and combination that give rise to that enigmatic and mysterious dimension so characteristic of Metaphysical Art. Finally, from a formal perspective, the deliberately illusory nature of this space is reaffirmed by De Chirico's objective and spare style.

Giorgio de Chirico was born in 1888 in Volos, Greece. Beginning in 1910, his reading of Nietzsche inspired him to produce his first self-portraits and metaphysical landscapes. From 1911 to 1915, he lived in Paris, exhibiting at various annual salons. At the end of the war, de Chirico went to Rome and participated in the "Valori plastici" exhibitions. His first solo exhibition was in 1919. Between 1924 and 1929, the artist lived in Paris again. In 1926, he joined the Novecento movement, a clear opposition to modernism. Giorgio de Chirico died in 1978 in Rome.

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