Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964

Giorgio Morandi's artistic practice lies in the balance between an outlook typical of the Age of Enlightenment and the formal synthesis of Cézanne and Modernism. Often remembered as a reserved and reclusive man, Morandi was actually a sensitive interpreter of his time. Thanks to a constant attention for several artistic and cultural movements, he succeeded in translating the inspirations they embodied into the variants of an unfailingly autonomous approach to painting. The survey exhibition Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964, co-organised by MAMbo along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, provides one of the most complete overviews ever arranged devoted to the artist. Over one hundred paintings, watercolours, drawings, and etchings illustrate the artist's entire creative and poetic course from the landscapes and still lives of 1913-1914 to his Metaphysical season up to the fading of the watercolours of the last years, passing through all the techniques he experimented. Particular attention is focused on the masterpieces of the 1920s and 1930s, in which Morandi perfected his extraordinary approach to image making and his in-depth investigation of the world and of human existence as filtered through the metaphor of the still life. The exhibition is documented in a wide Italian-English catalogue published by Skira, Milan, with essays by the exhibition curators Maria Cristina Bandera and Renato Miracco and by the critics Janet Abramowicz, Piero Ba

Giorgio Morandi 1890 - 1964

Kuratoren: Maria Cristina Bandera, Renato Miracco