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Milan, September 24 2019 - The great exhibition dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico (Volos, 1888 – Rome, 1978) opens to the public tomorrow and reconstructs the unrepeatable career of the "pictor optimus" through around a hundred masterpieces.

The rooms of Palazzo Reale in Milan, almost fifty years after the solo exhibition in 1970, return to host de Chirico's work in an extraordinary retrospective curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan-Cultura, by Palazzo Reale, by Marsilio and Electa, in collaboration with the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation and Barcor17.
An exhibition itinerary made up of unprecedented comparisons and unrepeatable combinations that reveal the "phantom" world of one of the most complex artistic figures of the XNUMXth century. The exhibition offers the key to accessing a hermetic painting that has its roots in the Greece of childhood, matured in the Paris of the avant-garde, gave life to the Metaphysics that bewitched the surrealists and conquered Andy Warhol and, finally, caused confusion with its irreverent and ironic reinterpretations of Baroque.

“Palazzo Reale offers with this exhibition an insight into an extraordinary painter whose unmistakable stylistic signature has marked the art of the last century, inspiring many artists, on both sides of the ocean – declares councilor Filippo Del Corno –. The high quality of the scientific curatorship, the attention to the layout and the dialogue between the works, the collaboration with the most important national and international museums now constitute a model for the creation of Milanese exhibitions, which are proving to be increasingly attractive, not only for specialists but also for all art enthusiasts who, as the numbers demonstrate, are arriving in ever greater numbers from all over Italy and the world".

The large body of works on display comes from important international museums including the Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Center Pompidou and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villede Paris, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAM ) in Rome, the PeggyGuggenheim Collection in Venice, The Menil Collection in Houston and the MAC USP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There are also numerous Milanese institutions: the Museo del Novecento, the Casa Museo Boschi di Stefano, the Pinacoteca di Brera and Villa Necchi Campiglio.

Divided into eight rooms, the exhibition proceeds by themes conceived according to new combinations and original comparisons as in a chain of visual reactions which, as de Chirico wrote in 1918, chase "the demon in everything [...] the eye in everything [because] We are explorers ready for other departures”.

Opening hours
Monday 14.30-19.30
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9.30-19.30 
Thursday and Saturday 9.30am-22.30pm
last admission one hour before the exhibition closes

tickets
(audio guide included / presale excluded) 
open ticket: €16 
full € 14
reduced € 12

Information and reservations
t + 39 0292897740
www.palazzorealemilano.it 
www.dechiricomilano.it

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De Chirico press release.