Director: Albert García-Alzórriz
Spain, 2020, 37’, HDD, b&w
An archive holds fragments of toppled statues. Inside, the air from a fan caresses the archivists’ stalled gestures as they rest, unmoving. The hum of the motor and the drawn-out wait induce sleep: In a dream, soldiers and civilians smile, motionless. (Faraway shots, bullets whistling and explosions). In another dream, there are just stones, indifference and oblivion. (None of the above is real or true).
In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to an Italian family. His mother, Gemma Cervetto, was from a family of Genoa origin, but most likely she was born in Izmir. His father, Evaristo, was born on June 21, 1841 in the Büyükdere district of Istanbul.
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