In 2001-2002, the de Chirico and Savinio exhibition (Düsseldorf – Munich) highlighted the de Chirico brothers’ collaboration in the creation of the Metaphysical aesthetic, breaking the traditional concept of a chronological exhibition order and replacing it with a thematic order that highlighted how Savinio worked alongside his brother on his own particular pictorial interpretation of themes related to memory, childhood, prehistory and national-cultural identity, previously only addressed in music and literature.

Die Andere Moderne. De Chirico Savinio, exhibition catalogue (Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 15 September-2 December 2001; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbach-Haus, 20 December 2001-10 March 2002), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Wieland Schmied, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2001

In 2002-2003, Alberto Savinio’s major anthological exhibition (Milan) curated in collaboration with Pia Vivarelli delved deep into the imagery and visual sources of the De Chirico brothers. At the end of 2003, it was the turn of de Chirico and his most ambiguous and difficult theme to interpret – that of the ‘gladiators’. The catalogue gives the most comprehensive reading of the implications of this subject and its literary, visual and psychic sources, with a complete Catalogue Raisonné of all works up to the early 1930s.

Alberto Savinio, exhibition catalogue (Milan, Fondazione Mazzotta, 29 November 2002-2 March 2003) curated by Pia Vivarelli, Paolo Baldacci, Mazzotta, Milan 2002 

Giorgio de Chirico. Gladiatori 1927-1929, exhibition catalogue (Varese, Villa Panza, 4 October-14 December 2003), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Skira editore, Milan 2003

In 2007, de Chirico’s anthological exhibition at Palazzo Zabarella (Padua) offered a rich and unrepeatable overview of the years 1919-1924 with the first metaphysical replicas and various declinations of the Roman “piazzas” and “villas”, accompanied by a critical text that constitutes the first complete monograph on de Chirico, his themes and his artistic evolution from 1908 to his death in 1978. The Florentine exhibition De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A Look into the Invisible, 2010 was the first exhibition organized by the Archives’ staff in collaboration with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and highlighted the affinity between de Chirico’s work and that of some of the great protagonists of Surrealism. This series of exhibitions culminated at the end of 2015 with an exhibition dedicated to Ferrarese metaphysics and its relation to the European avant-garde at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, which then continued to the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. The Ferrara exhibition was fundamental not only because it brought together a group of works by de Chirico and Carrà that had not been seen side by side since their creation, but above all, because it revolutionized the reading of Ferrarese metaphysics by highlighting the traits that distinguish it from those of the Parisian and Italian periods.

De Chirico, exhibition catalogue (Padua, Palazzo Zabarella, 20 January-27 May 2007), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Gerd Roos, Marsilio, Venice 2007

De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. Uno sguardo nell’invisibile, exhibition catalogue (Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 26 February-18 July 2010), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Guido Magnaguagno, Gerd Roos, Mandragora Editore, Florence 2010

De Chirico a Ferrara. Metafisica e avanguardie exhibition catalogue (Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, 14 November 2015-28 February 2016), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Gerd Roos, Ferrara, Ferrara Arte 2015

Giorgio de Chirico. Magie der Moderne, exhibition catalogue (Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie 18 March-3 July 2016), edited by Paolo Baldacci, Christiane Lange, Gerd Roos, Sandstein Verlag 2016

In 2020 and 2021, the opportunity to explore the period of Parisian metaphysics and its German origins finally presented itself. The two exhibitions Giorgio de Chirico. La Peinture Métaphysique (Musée de l’Orangerie, curated by Paolo Baldacci and Cécile Girardeau) and Giorgio de Chirico Magische Wirklichkeit (Hamburger Kunsthalle, curated by Paolo Baldacci and Annabelle Görgen-Lammers), showcased the extreme independence of de Chirico’s new artistic concept despite its appropriation of the founding principles of the modernist pictorial language.

Giorgio de Chirico. La Peinture Métaphysique, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, 1 April-13 July 2020), edited by Paolo Baldacci and Cécile Girardeau, Editions Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie/Hazan, Paris 2020

Giorgio de Chirico Magische Wirklichkeit, exhibition catalogue (Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 22 January-25 April 2021), edited by Paolo Baldacci and Annabelle Görgen-Lammers, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2020