Palazzo de Rossi in Pistoia hosts until October 22, 2023, “In Visit Giorgio de Chirico“.
Giorgio de Chirico is one of the most appreciated and well-known Italian artists of all time.
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de Chirico: Biographical Notes
Giorgio de Chirico was born in Volos, a city in Thessaly, Greece, on July 10, 1888, to Italian parents belonging to the nobility, Evaristo de Chirico and Gemma Cervetto, a baroness of Genoese origin. Both parents were born in Constantinople. For the first seventeen years of his life, the family lived in Greece between Volos and Athens.
Giorgio de Chirico first arrived in Italy in the 1930s and then moved permanently to Rome, after some time, in 1944.
He died in Rome in 1978.
The Exhibition in Pistoia
de Chirico returns to exhibit in Pistoia, specifically at Palazzo de Rossi, after 40 years as part of the project “In Visit“, within the permanent collection 20th Century Collections of Pistoia Musei at Palazzo de’ Rossi.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the work “Mannequins by the Sea” which de Chirico created at the height of his success in 1926, combining the theme of classicism with the themes of early Metaphysics.
In Visit Giorgio de Chirico contrasts Mannequins by the Sea with the head of Faustina the Elder, a masterpiece of Roman art dated to the 2nd century AD, generally housed at the Ancient Palace of the Bishops and now once again on public display.
The Roman head, acquired by the Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia in 1983, is linked to de Chirico also because it was studied by Raissa Calza, the artist’s partner and later wife.
After the first appointment of In visita, which featured two Kore by Fausto Melotti and Pomona by Marino Marini, the curators Monica Preti, Annamaria Iacuzzi, and Cristina Taddei now bring into dialogue two works that are chronologically distant from each other, both from the Collections of Intesa Sanpaolo.
