Paolo Baldacci

Giorgio de Chirico, one of the Italian artists who most influenced 20th-century art, first became aware of the mysterious relationship between the physical reality we see and the invisible conceptual reality harboured in our spirit while visiting Florence at the age of 21.
« One clear autumnal afternoon I was sitting on a bench in the middle of the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence… Then I had the strange impression that I was looking at all these things for the first time, and the composition of my picture came to my mind’s eye. Now each time I look at this painting I again see that moment. Nevertheless the moment is an enigma to me, for it is inexplicable. »
The « Florentine revelation » of October 1909