Pittura metafisica. After Giorgio de Chirico Artwork - Limited Edition of 5

Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est?/What am I to love if not an enigma? - wrote the young Giorgio de Chirico on his self-portrait in 1911, during the period when he was working out his concept of "pittura metafisica," painting strange paintings full of nostalgia, tense anticipation and alienation, with illogical, drastically distant perspectives, in which his favorite motif compulsively appears: arcades that cast long shadows. "The Roman arcade is fate (...), its voice speaks riddles that are filled with a kind of Roman poetry" /, he wrote. The first of his series of "metaphysical city squares" and the most famous: "The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon," was created, as we know, after the revelation de Chirico experienced in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence (1910-11). A century later, the painting with its semantics became the subject of a postmodern play by Philip Starck, who "recreated" the arcade from de Chirico's painting in real life on the roof of Azkun Zentroa in Bilboa. Entering this space produces that "remembering gaze" effect: sharp geometric forms, saturated colors of brick arcades against a kitschy intense azure sky, strong chiaroscuro. A vivid image. My photography is the next game:: simultaneously with de Chirico's painting and with Philip Starck's, asking whether it is possible today to evoke the sense of de Chirico's "metaphysical aspect" lost by the postmodern grotesque, and what it is, or can be, today. (ml) Photograph reproduced in the article: Olimpia Gaia Martinelli, Portrait d'Artiste:Marta Lesniakowska, 'Artmajeur Magazine' 2023 no. 26 p. 38-40.

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