Giorgio De Chirico in Campobasso

The Molise Culture Foundation, directed by Sandro Arco, opens to the public Saturday 20 December 2014 a Palazzo Ex GIL Campobasso, a major exhibition dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico, one of the international leaders of the most prolific and versatile of the twentieth century. Joy of the Game and neometaphysical is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio and Isa de Chirico in Rome and is curated by Lorenzo Canova, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Molise and member of the board of the Foundation de Chirico.
Exposure with seventy works, including paintings, drawings and graphics, from the collection of the Foundation Giorgio and Isa de Chirico, is definitely the most complete ever made in Italy on neometaphysical artist. This significant final phase of the work of de Chirico, from the first fundamental exhibition of San Marino 1995, has been celebrated around the world, as demonstrated by the recent exhibitions organized by major museums in Paris, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, Athens, Tokio e New York. Therefore wants to be a moment of reflection on the last ten years of work by de Chirico and his neo-metaphysical, where the great painter rediscovers a very happy mood creative reworking and transforming all the immense wealth of his iconographic dazzling first metaphysical period and subsequent years. New research imaginative characterized by a painting free of preconceptions, very high final season of wonderful qualities in which his world is dismantled and reassembled in a vision of intense brightness reflected on the inner surface of the painting. The works are the result of a perception neometafisiche playful, ironic and lucid, in which the artist plays with his own world of images and discoveries, identifying new boundaries in the name of that figure philosophy and culture that has always marked his path, going from Nietzsche to Greek tragedy, Heraclitus mythology with a lightness that compositional, in its disguised complexity, however hides a universe full of secrets still to be investigated. De Chirico has famously tied much of his work in an imaginary landscape and very close to the historical context of Molise, between antiquity and modernity, archeology, eg, sites of Pietrabbondante, Venafro, Larino and Altilia, that interact with archaeologists, gladiators and the ruins painted by master, until the modernity of the EX GIL, masterpiece of the Italian architectural rationalism of the thirties that in de Chirico found a fundamental source of inspiration, in the "Metaphysics built" that spread in the architecture of the time and that is also echoed in the spaces of Campobasso solemn building designed by Domenico Filippone.
It will be printed a catalog published by Edizioni Director of Campobasso with essays by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Flavia Monceri, Elena Pontiggia, Katherine Robinson, along with a collection of texts chosen artist, writings from the early years in Paris to those of Rome, where is that, over the last thirty years, lived and worked, in that studio-apartment of the Spanish Steps, today became House Museum.
The exhibition will remain open until 6 April 2015, in this period will be held an international conference on the work of Giorgio de Chirico. Educational workshops for children and teens, guided tours accompany the public to discover the great artist and his works.