Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi (*1890, †1964 in Bologna) is known for his still lifes and paintings of landscapes. Throughout his life, Giorgio Morandi devoted himself to depicting simple, everyday objects such as bottles, jugs, vases and bowls.

On the canvas, he repeatedly created new arrangements with the vessels, so that no two pictures are the same despite the similarity of the objects. They immediately reveal a concentrated calm and reduction to essential forms and delicate colours. Morandi's pictures are simple, almost minimalist depictions.

“Giorgio Morandi. Resonances” at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen starts with the comprehensive Morandi group of works in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and expands it with numerous loans from German and European collections in favour of a comprehensive view of the entire oeuvre of the painter from Bologna. At the same time, the exhibition adopts Morandi's principle and places the works in dialogue with older and more recent works by other artists. The exhibition will create resonances between individual motifs and images by visualising connections between similarities and allowing differences to speak for themselves.