The impact of the melancholy, metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) had much to do with his unique ability to see antiquity anew, and to locate its props in mysterious, atemporal dreamscapes. De Chirico loaded his depictions of Greek and Roman statues and architecture with muted intimations of allegory, locking away their meanings in foreboding enigmas that were among the earliest articulations of the Surrealist project. Published for a 2013 exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaelogy gathers a selection of lesser-known early works by de Chirico--bronze sculptures and drawings that address the artist’s innovative use of myth (such as Dioscuri, the Argonauts and Ariadne), archaeological artifacts and historical events from the classical era.

Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaelogy

Arts & Photography

Miracco, Renato

Kosinski, Dorothy

Vezzoli, Francesco

Calarota, Franco

Bisogniero, Claudio

Individual Artists

Silvana Editorale

<p>Throughout his career, Francesco Vezzoli has focused on people's fascination with celebrity. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 27, 2007, he restaged <i>Right You Are (If You Think You Are)</i>, the renowned play by Italian Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello that examines the fundamental ambiguity of truth. Vezzoli assembled an extraordinary cast of top-billed actors, implicating his audience in an investigation of rumor and celebrity mongering as substitutes for a deeper understanding of the individual. Pirandello, like Vezzoli in his own art, points to these empty distractions as a means of drawing attention to existential and humanist concerns. Vezzoli's visionary approach to Pirandello's jewel of a work playfully exposes the relativity of truth, the necessity of illusion, and the instability of the human persona. Co-produced by the Gagosian Gallery of New York, the staging is fully documented in this book in which you can literally be reflected as in a mirror, thanks to the inside of the cover.</p>

Francesco Vezzoli: Right You Are (If You Think You Are)

Goldberg, RoseLee

Muschamp, Herbert

Charta/ Gagosian Gallery

One of the new generation of Italian artists, Francesco Vezzoli creates video works and needlepoints that mix together pop culture icons, auteur cinema, art history, the fashion world, elegance, kitsch, and camp. By embroidering a trail of tears or blood on the iconic faces of Veruschka, Helmut Berger, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, and Anna Magnani, and by creating innovative videoworks with them, Vezzoli restores to their surfaces a depth of feeling in this, his first monograph. Essay by Marcella Beccaria. Publisher: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

Francesco Vezzoli

Beccaria, Marcella

Castello Di Rivoli

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