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De Chirico, Self-PortraitDe Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus

A look into the Invisible
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tarting from the fundamental exhibition organised in Zurich, Berlin and Munich in 1997, Boecklin, De Chirico, Ernst. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse and the essays written by Wieland Schmied and David Sylvester towards the end of the Seventies, this exhibition explores the early years of the career of De Chirico and the influence of his first works on movements such as Surrealism and the Neue Sachlichkeit.
De Chirico was born in 1888 in Greece and partly raised there, where his engineer father designed and built railway lines. He had a prolific artistic career, and lived to a grand old age, almost as long as Picasso. He died in 1978. Having studied in Munich, at the age of twenty-one and fascinated by the work of the Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, he began to paint a series of strange and oneiric cityscapes. Displayed in Paris after 1911 they were enthusiastically greeted by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Éluard, and very soon De Chirico became one of the heroes of Surrealism.
This phase of his work – the so-called metaphysical painting – lasted up to around 1918. Subsequently De Chirico changed direction. He wanted to become a classicist – and almost succeeded.
This exhibit not only offers a chance for visitors to view and compare the work of De Chirico, but also to interact. Though usually at exhibits there are only children workshops, at this exhibition, there is an interactive theatre workshop for adults. The Florence International Theatre Company is organizing a creative workshop in which aspiring playwrights are able to create and put into play their own versions of Florence in the contemporary sense.

This workshop includes a focused discussion in the exhibition, taking note and studying the art and then progressing into the studios where, with the help of theatre professionals, the participants of this workshop create their own one-act play. Limited space is available though in this English version of the workshop for adults on Thursday, April 22nd from 5pm to 8:30 pm and reservations are required. It only costs 8 euros for adults to enter the exhibition and the workshop is included. To reserve your spot, call +39 055 2469600. Put your playwriting skills to the test while exploring the magical exhibit of De Chirico.




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