Et quid amabo nisi … What I love about de Chirico

 

October 14, 2016

On the occasion of the launch of CIMA’s new season, dedicated to the artists Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini, CIMA welcomes Maddalena Disch, director of the Giulio and Anna Paolini Foundation, and CIMA’s founder-president Laura Mattioli in conversation with CIMA Fall Fellows Maria Bremer and Giovanni Casini. 

The panelists will discuss the enigmatic and elusive nature of Giorgio de Chirico’s work and its lasting inspiration and influence on leading contemporary critics, collectors, and artists–particularly Giulio Paolini, as demonstrated in CIMA’s exhibition.

Maddalena Disch, as director of the Paolini Foundation and an expert on Paolini’s oeuvre, will share unique insights into the artist’s studio and practice,  his discovery and appropriation of de Chirico’s work, and its reinvention through Paolini’s conceptual practice. Laura Mattioli will discuss the background of the Gianni Mattioli Collection’s history with de Chirico, and the anecdotal and biographical backdrops to her father’s collecting of de Chirico. This curatorial panel conversation will also address the broad themes that the work of these two artists shares and provide a rare look at the collecting practices and artistic environment of post-war Italy.

Missed the event? Watch videos here!