about a painting by Giorgio Morandi

On Saturday 27 March at 6pm the exhibition Around a work by Giorgio Morandi will be opened at Galleria Torbandena.

The exhibition, curated by Marilena Pasquali, founder of Bologna's Morandi Museum and chairman of the Centro Studi per l'opera di Giorgio Morandi, centres around a work by the master dated 1913 entitled La Nevicata, the snowfall.

Around this work by the Bologna-born master, particularly meaningful also from the historical point of view, a path within the exhibition will develop, enhanced by the presence of, and the comparison with, the works by some of the biggest painters of the first half of the 20th century.

La Nevicata, painted by the artist when only 23, is one of the first concrete answers through which a still very young Morandi takes a stance with regards the abundance of impulses and intellectual urges that the first years of the 20th century were rather rich of.

This extraordinary painting is displayed next to a big drawing by Giacomo Balla, often exhibited in international museums. Also on show works by Modigliani and Leger, de Chirico and Carrà's metaphysics, all the way through to Mark Tobey's abstractions. These are just a few of the artists showcased, representing all that Morandi, in his absolute uniqueness, had offered resistance to, creating a pictorial lesson so unusual and meaningful that it became the foundation for the whole figurative art of the 20th century, from the beginning of avant-garde art movements to the boundaries of 50's abstractions.

The exhibition will come with a book especially dedicated to Morandi’s painting – thus inaugurating Torbandena's book series on classics - where Marilena Pasquali will compare Morandi's works with the creations of the great artists that have made the history of painting, from Giotto through the Italian Renaissance to Francis Bacon and Antony Gormley.

about a painting by Giorgio Morandi