Giorgio De Chirico - Untitled

The horse series is a subject Giorgio de Chirico developed with numerous variations and is inspired by ancient painting. This type of iconography addresses a crucial concept in de Chirico's poetics, also fundamental to the development of his metaphysical theses: the concept of a "return to origins." For de Chirico, contemporary art should not create new images; rather, the artist should select them from the past, as if it were an ideal museum, arrogating to himself the freedom to rework them into creative compositions.

In this work, compared to De Chirico's more strictly metaphysical production, we can see a different nature in the artist. One of the fundamental concepts of Metaphysical Art is the production of images in an objectifying, completely illusory manner. In this silkscreen, however, we see a more synthetic and essential De Chirico. The artist constructs the subject with an elegant graphic sign through which he constructs the subject, defining it physiognomically and plastically.

Giorgio De Chirico, born in Volos, Greece, in 1888, died in Rome in 1978. He is the founder of Metaphysical painting. De Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. But he creates an effect of estrangement through the process of displacement—the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context—or condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical painting is also characterized by the illusory nature of its images.

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