Bologna up to 20/12/2009 Via D'Azeglio 15 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore Giorgio de Chirico and Giorgio Morandi confirmed once again as the protagonists of Italian art on the international scene, as the exhibits point out that recently the Metropolitan Museum New York and Muse'ed'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris devoted to one or other of the two masters. Two undisputed twentieth-century representatives of our country, today offered together in a unique and interesting overview prepared to stimulate fresh thinking about their work and to bring out novel aspects of their art making
An original dialogue between poetic and evocative atmosphere that takes place between the walls of the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore GAM where the sophisticated language, ideal for expressing an extraordinary lyrical essence of the Bolognese master meets the strong evocative paintings of the artist emerges from the metaphysical in a continuous creative osmosis. Both of our two artists have an access key to this dimension than most 'intimate and private: Duffy plays with everyday objects and domestic, with recognizable scenarios set in vibrant lights that are made using basic shapes and colors such as' recognizable , De Chirico venturing instead into another world, populated by bizarre characters, or if family members, however, because alienating 'placed in a space-time that is not' than usual. The vision is expressed through a calm and orderly, the other takes on atmosphere more 'uncertain and unsettling. Overall, the exhibition reveals therefore an important opportunity for direct dialogue between two of the greatest artists that have left an indelible mark in the history of the twentieth century and which in recent years and 'switched on, even a strong international interest in deepening study as evidenced by the recent exhibition of Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and De Chirico in Muse'ed'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris