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Piazza Shadows (for Giorgio de Chirico)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888-1978).

Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico is often treated as a surrealist, but he might be better thought of as one of surrealism’s antecedents, like Baudelaire (Track 5) and Alfred Jarry (Track 20).

During his metaphysical period, he returned repeatedly to certain motifs, including images of public squares (piazzas) and elongated, late-afternoon shadows, creating a world that seems to exist in a single, endless moment of fading sunlight. His work was introduced to Paris by Apollinaire, and had a powerful influence on the surrealists.

This composition refers to the many iterations of shadowed piazzas in de Chirico’s work, and to the powerful emotional response they can evoke.

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One I pick up
One I put down
One I pick up
One I let go.

Piazza shadows
Cling to the walls.
Memory shadows
Childhood calls.

Shadows.
Shadows.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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Nas Hedron Toronto, Ontario

“An artist who gives a fresh new and startling meaning to the word interdisciplinary.”
-- Donald Brackett, author of "Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece" and "Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos."

Nas Hedron divides his time between his native Canada and Brazil.
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