Alberto Savinio, Tutta la vita <\/em>(A whole life), 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To mark the centenary of Surrealism, organized by the Centre Pompidou and the Association Atelier Andr\u00e9 Breton, Tornabuoni Art is presenting an exhibition dedicated to Metaphysical Painting, an Italian art current that was both a precursor and a parent to Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s movement, and to its ideator: Giorgio de Chirico. Ten works by the man known as the Pictor Optimus are on display, alongside canvases by six artists of his generation who, like him, immersed themselves in the pictorial universe of dreams, silence and interiority: Felice Casorati, Giorgio Morandi, Ren\u00e9 Paresce, Alberto Savinio, Gino Severini and Mario Tozzi.<\/p>\n

The Surrealists\u2019 discovery of De Chirico\u2019s work remains among the most famous historiographical legends of twentieth-century art. In 1916, Breton is said to have been so struck by a work by De Chirico in Paul Guillaume\u2019s gallery window that he got off the bus to purchase it. Yves Tanguy, too, recounts a similar episode that led to his lifelong interest in representing dreams. Ren\u00e9 Magritte, in turn, describes being moved to tears by a reproduction of a de Chirico painting in 1922\u2014an encounter which triggered his transition from Dadaism to Surrealism. Magritte regarded the Italian artist as \u00abthe greatest painter of our time\u00bb, writing that \u00abDe Chirico was the first to dream what should be painted, not how it should be painted.\u00bb[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”bouton-contenu-supplementaire”]Read more<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”contenu-supplementaire”]While Metaphysical Painting remains indissociable from the French Surrealist movement, the city Paris played no less formative a role in the development of the Italian current. De Chirico and his brother Savinio\u2014then still known as Andrea de Chirico\u2014lived there between 1911 and 1915. They met Guillaume Apollinaire, who admired De Chirico\u2019s \u00abstrangely metaphysical\u00bb paintings. Pablo Picasso, too, praised the works of the two Italian painters, and the influence of Cubism with its impossible perspectives, can be seen in a number of metaphysical paintings, notably by De Chirico, Severini, Tozzi and Paresce. The latter three, alongside the De Chirico brothers, were part of a group of artists known as the \u00abItalians of Paris\u00bb, who exhibited together between 1928 and 1933.<\/p>\n

At the outbreak of World War I, De Chirico and Savinio returned to Italy and began their military service in Ferrara in 1915. An archetype of the ideal Renaissance city, Ferrara\u2019s squares and palaces inspired the famous Piazze d\u2019Italia (Italian Squares) series by De Chirico, who laid the foundations for the Metaphysical School alongside Carlo Carr\u00e0. It was also here that the artists came into contact with Morandi, a native of nearby Bologna. The influence of metaphysical painting on Morandi\u2019s canvases continued well beyond his surrealist period, as evidenced by the long shadows and fragile motionlessness of his later still lifes.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”testo-giustificato”]The exhibition aims to present the various subjects of Metaphysical Painting, each of which has its origins in De Chirico\u2019s work. From landscapes to portraits, nudes and still lifes, metaphysical painters appropriated traditional painting genres and transposed them into the realm of dreams.
\nThe everyday is juxtaposed with myth in the suspended temporalities of compositions strewn with philosophical references and poetic symbolism. If this Nietzschean rather than psychoanalytical approach has sometimes distanced the metaphysical movement from that of Breton, the hybrid creatures and disquieting atmosphere that inhabit the canvases of the artists on view undeniably cement their place in the history of Surrealism.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727189339557{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

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