Paris has an appointment with an enigma.
Where to classify Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), this artist whose paradoxes were revealed by the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2009, from the worst to the best, from the most elliptical brio to the most uninhibited pastiche?
It was a tide of 170 paintings, sculptures, graphic works and a selection of archives, long rebus that formed a fascinating portrait in its Art Deco loop.
The Musée de l'Orangerie takes the opposite point of view and focuses on its
"metaphysical" period
- epithet given by friend Guillaume Apollinaire, born in Rome, a Polish subject of the Russian Empire, who became a poet in Paris - that is to say his most museum and most popular period.
But the zoom effect does not dispel the mystery of this singular spirit any more than the avalanche of paintings, copies, "replays" and chapters in which the secret of the man who denied the avant-garde was hidden.
At each exhibition, Chirico, like a phoenix, emerges from his shadow intact, like an apparition,
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