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Loustal: Giorgio de Chirico de passage à Villeurbanne


 

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street is one of Giorgio de Chirico’s unmatched images of deserted public spaces rendered in simple geometric forms. The painting represents an encounter between two figures: a small girl running with a hoop and a statue that is present in the painting only through its shadow. The girl is moving towards the source of bright light coming from behind the building on the right and illuminating intensively the arcades on the left. The bright yellow corridor stretched up to the horizon separates two zones: light and darkness.
If you look closely at the two sharply contrasted buildings you will notice that lightning is not their only distinction. De Chirico intentionally used two contradictory vanishing points (a point in the picture plane that is the intersection of the projections (or drawings) of a set of parallel lines), thus destroying any resemblance to reality. All of the lines of the fully illuminated building on the left meet slightly above the horizon; the alignments of the dark building meet at a point where the truck roof touches the yellow of the ground. One last detail concerning the perspective is an isometric depiction of a truck, or freight car, mysteriously lit by a light coming from…well, nowhere. This juxtaposition of light sources and perspectives enabled de Chirico to create a mysterious and impossible universe where spaces will never converge and the girl will never reach the statue.

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Loustal: Giorgio de Chirico de passage à Villeurbanne, part 2

  


Giorgio de Chirico Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 
 
Giorgio de Chirico
Mistero e malinconia di una strada, fanciulla con cerchio
Watercolour
Signed and dated 1948 but made in the 60s
74,9 x 59,1 cm
A late replica, made by de Chirico, probably in late Sixties and retrodated to 1948, of one of his most celebrated paintings of 1914. It is an example of the most noted and discussed methods of the dechirican poetics: the execution of replicas of earlier paintings, disturbing every conceptual distinction between original and copy. Compared with the 1914 example in this painting the arches of the buildings to the left are smaller, the shadow of the monument emerging from palace to the left lacks its arm and the carriage has no wheels. The theme of absence seems to pervade the work in every detail, in the figure of the girl, in the lengthening shadows of the figures behind the palace, in the disturbing railway carriage.

Provenance: Isabella Far de Chirico; Peter Wilenski, Australia; Sotheby's (2000), New York

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Loustal: Giorgio de Chirico de passage à Villeurbanne, part1

  


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2014 Exposition Perspectives Gratte-Ciel
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La Galerie  – LE RIZE
DU MARDI AU SAMEDI DE 12 H À 19 H. LE JEUDI DE 17 H À 21 H
Du 12 juin au 21 septembre 2014