Giorgio Morandi
Resonances

Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964 in Bologna) is known for for his still-life works and landscape paintings. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to depicting simple, everyday objects such as bottles, jugs, vases, and bowls. In his paintings and drawings, he constantly varied the arrangement of objects so that, despite similar compositions, no two pictures are alike. They are reduced to a concentrated calmness of essential forms. It is precisely in the repetitions of the same objects that the minimal differences emerge as major events. It is precisely for this tension between repetition and difference that Morandi, one of the great ‘loners’ of modern painting, has attracted attention.

The retrospective exhibition “Giorgio Morandi. Resonances” at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen explores Morandi's special position in the art of the last 80 years. It shows more than 60 works by the painter, from his early work in the 1920s to the 1960s. The presentation begins with the comprehensive Morandi collection of the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and expands it with loans from German and European collections. At the same time, the exhibition embraces Morandi's principle and places the works in dialogue with older and younger works by other artists, including Joseph Albers, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Gustave Caillebotte, Tacita Dean, Walter Dexel, Peter Dreher, Lucian Freud, Candida Höfer, On Kawara, Sol Lewitt, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Franziska Reinbothe and Willem de Rooij.

With a total of over 80 works, the exhibition itself will create resonances between individual motifs and images by revealing connections between similar elements and highlighting differences.

Curator: Prof. Dr. Christian Spies

Supported by the Ministry for Culture and Science NRW, Peter Paul Rubens Foundation and the Circle of Friends of the MGKSiegen

Press conference
FRI. 28.11. 12 am
Giorgio Morandi. Resonances
With curator Prof. Dr. Christian Spies and director Thomas Thiel

Opening
FRI. 28.11. 7 pm
Giorgio Morandi. Resonances
Speeches by
Thomas Thiel, director MGKSiegen
N.N.
Prof. Dr. Christian Spies, Curator und President Peter Paul Rubens Foundation

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