Giorgio Morandi Ideas | Morandi's legacy

22 Sep 22 Nov 2021 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - São Paulo Solo exhibition
Giorgio Morandi, <i>Still Life</i>, 1946. © Archive MAC USP
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1946. © Archive MAC USP

A solo show of works by Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964, Bologna, Italy) punctuated by works of contemporary artists inspired by his oeuvre.

Morandi is one of the best-known 20th-century painters, mainly due to the depth and intensity he achieved by repeatedly painting a very restricted set of subjects. Often dedicated to the painting of still lifes – especially scenes of the same set of glass bottles – he took an apparently subtle and prosaic theme as a basis for a monumental investigation into painting, time and the relationships produced by the gaze.

The exhbition Ideas | Morandi's legacy will be also presented at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro, from December 15 to February 21 of 2022. 

Curatorship: Alberto Salvadori and Gianfranco Maraniello

Learn more about the artist here.

  1. Caroline A. Jones, Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
  2. Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
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