Giorgio De Chirico, Felice Casorati, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Antonio Donghi, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Achille Funi at Palazzo Reale illustrate how after the avant-garde revolution, figurative painting and classic heritage returned to the fore in a form of contemporary painting that has been often termed “algid, terse, and investigated in the smallest details, so realistic it appears disquieting and alienating,” write curators Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli.
“Magic Realism” is the title of the exhibition that from 19 October 2021 to 27 February 2022 will charm viewers at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
Promoted and produced by the Comune di Milano-Cultura, Palazzo Reale and 24 ORE Cultura-Gruppo 24 ORE, and curated by Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli, the exhibition presents a display of over 80 paintings providing a philological and historiographical reconstruction of the Magic Realism phenomenon.
A new movement with bold subjects and a style that between 1929 and 1935 represented a return to neoclassic art deco painting, to Piero della Francesca’s shapes and proportions, and to metaphysical, surreal, in a word, magic settings.