The sculpture has its origin in one of the artist's most famous metaphysical paintings: Hector and Andromache. The painful farewell of the fighter to his beloved is a scene in which Giorgio De Chirico depicts the movement of the two characters so mechanical that they become puppets. The woman...
The sculpture has its origin in one of the artist's most famous metaphysical paintings: Hector and Andromache. The painful farewell of the fighter to his beloved is a scene in which Giorgio De Chirico depicts the movement of the two characters so mechanical that they become puppets. The woman, embracing her husband, abandons herself to the cruel and implacable fate. It is the Trojan War that determines the fate of men from which it is impossible to escape. Hector and Andromache evokes nostalgia and sadness but also one of the noblest feelings for the Greeks: courage. The couple's embrace becomes the symbol of an eternal love.
Giorgio De Chirico is an Italian painter, sculptor and writer, born in 1888 in Vólos, Greece and died in 1978 in Rome. Born into a cosmopolitan bourgeois family, he left Athens for Munich, Germany, where he received a true artistic education before moving to Paris, where he met artists of the avant-garde (Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso). He is one of the founders of the metaphysical painting movement. The posterity of Giorgio De Chirico is immense: he exerts a considerable influence on the Futurist painters, the Dadaists, the artists of the New Objectivity, the Surrealists. In 1919, he began a return to classicism and settled in Rome in 1938. He became interested in sculpture in 1968, transposing his pictorial repertoire into polished and gilded bronze. Giorgio De Chirico collaborated in 1929 with the director of the Ballets Russes Serge de Diaghilev for Le Bal - a ballet written by Boris Kochno to music by Vittorio Rieti. The choreography is provided by George Balanchine. De Chirico will create the costumes and sets.
