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the logic of mystery

In de Chirico's 'Composizione Metafisica' things are not where they ought but rather where they choose to be: such as an oversize ball and red glove nailed garishly to the wall that make the viewer feel diminutive in front of the inexplicable. The air is still, silent from lack of movement, everything held in an eerie suspense. Invisible watches tell the time here, both antique and futuristic, and without clearly designated temporal coordinates there can only be questions without answers. Perhaps even the questions are being put on pause. The viewer becomes aware that the painting is more about 'you' the observer, just one among many strange enigmatic objects, than the artist's own invented metaphysical landscape..


A de Chirico painting has always seemed to me a wild disordered Jungian 'collective unconscious'..

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Qui gli oggetti non stanno dove dovrebbero, ma dove vogliono. Una palla da gioco diventa un presagio e un guanto rosso ti fa sentire minuscolo di fronte all’inspiegabile. Non c’è azione, ma c’è attesa. Non c’è tempo, ma ci sono orologi invisibili che battono ritmi antichi e futuri allo stesso tempo. L’arte metafisica non è fatta per spiegare, ma per far domande. E più guardi, più ti accorgi che forse il vero enigma... sei tu.

 
 
 

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