Inside the Metaphysical Spaces of Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico is a controversial and fascinating figure of twentieth-century Italian artistic expression, whose complex and ingenious personality gave rise to an original approach to representation known as “Metaphysics”. The space painted by the master, although filtered by the suggestion of the metaphysical act, is supported by the rules of projective geometry, reflecting the historical parallel between art explosion and mathematical expansion of his time. Through the analysis of a metaphysical architecture painted by de Chirico, using the principles of descriptive geometry that allow perspective rectification, this study aims to define a new graphic reconstruction of the paintings. Three-dimensionality and virtuality are the key characteristics for a redefinition of the volumes of dechirican work and for the graphic transcription of these spaces on the two-dimensional plane of drawing, whether they exist or are imagined. The construction of the new image will be based on the principles of equirectangular projection, moving from the more traditional drawing tools to the most advanced digital visualization, expanding the concept of croquis on paper and the essential connection of the digital medium with the geometric exercise.