Modena celebrates Giorgio de Chirico with the exhibition dedicated to "The Last Metaphysics"
Opening to the public on November 29, 2025, in the new wing of the Palazzo dei Musei in Modena, the exhibition Giorgio de Chirico. The Last Metaphysics, curated by Elena Pontiggia.
The exhibition, open until April 12, 2026, brings together fifty masterpieces by the Maestro, offering the public a fascinating journey through the last creative season of the founder of metaphysical painting.

Promoted by the Municipality of Modena, in collaboration with the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation – from which all the exhibited works come – and produced by Silvana Editoriale, the exhibition represents an important event to delve into the thought and poetics of one of the absolute protagonists of 20th-century art. Picasso used to say that it takes a long time to become young.

Giorgio de Chirico achieves this in a unique way at the age of eighty, when in 1968 he inaugurates his neometaphysical season. It is during this period that the artist returns to the themes, figures, and motifs that had animated his painting from the 1910s to the early 1930s, infusing them with a new, more playful meaning, permeated by a youthful gaze now free from the tragic sense that, hidden behind an apparent serenity, permeated his works over half a century earlier.
The exhibition aims to retrace precisely this extraordinary decade (1968–1978), in which de Chirico returns to painting mannequins, Italian Squares, and other enigmas of his poetic universe, reinterpreting them with renewed creative freedom and fertile imagination, between memory and reinvention.

The neometaphysical distinguishes itself from the copies that de Chirico made for much of his life by a profound change in language and meaning. With accentuated irony and a livelier palette, the artist moves away from the nihilistic and restless vision of the 1910s to reinterpret, in a more serene key – although still tinged with melancholy – the themes that had marked his first metaphysical season.