Friday, 2 November 2012

Metaphysical town squares

I'm a big fan of Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical Town Square series of paintings from the 1910s.  Mostly uninhabited architectural spaces with long deep shadows and much emphasized perspectives, they are full of haunting isolation and melancholy.

De Chirico at K20, Düsseldorf 2012:



Glimpses of townscapes that remind me of de Chirico ...

Outside Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin 2012:


Outside Starbucks near Heinrich-Heine-Allee, Düsseldorf 2012:


Outside Kai 10, Düsseldorf 2009: