calendario eventi  :: 

X

6/6/2013

Giorgio Morandi

Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles

Retrospective
Guest artist: Luc Tuymans

curator: Maria Cristina Bandera

BOZAR pays tribute to Giorgio Morandi, one of the great masters of modern art, who was influenced both by Italian painters such as Giotto and Paolo Uccello and French painters such as Chardin, Seurat, and Cézanne. This remarkable retrospective contains a hundred works (oil paintings on canvas, drawings, etchings, and watercolours), brought together by the exhibition’s curator, Maria Cristina Bandera. She invites you to explore the major themes of Morandi’s oeuvre and to immerse yourself in his world as you savour his calming still lifes, the beauty of his landscapes inspired by the countryside of Emilia-Romagna, and the bouquets of flowers he occasionally gave to friends and acquaintances.

His work continues to inspire artists today, including Luc Tuymans, who was invited by the curator to present a number of works that enter into a dialogue with those of the Italian painter. A visitor’s guide, with texts by six writers who share their vision on Morandi’s work, will help you to get even more out of your visit.

Poetry for Giorgio Morandi
Six poets draw inspiration from his paintings
BOZAR LITERATURE has invited a number of European writers to draw inspiration from a painting by the Italian artist, as a literary intervention in the Giorgio Morandi retrospective.
See Morandi through the eyes of poets from Belgium, France, Poland, and the United States, who have drawn inspiration from Morandi’s paintings. You can read the results in the visitor's guide.

With Charles Juliet, Jan Lauwereyns, Maud Vanhauwaert, Nicole Malinconi, Charles Wright & Adam Zagajewski.
Charles Juliet and Nicole Malinconi will have a talk on Morandi on 14 September held in the exhibition, together with the young Belgian writer Stéphane Lambert.

----

Valérie Mannaerts
Orlando

Curator: Catherine Wood

Working with the peculiar and rich qualities of the 1930s spaces of BOZAR, Valerie Mannerts’s exhibition will present a selection of her sculptures, textiles, collages and drawings. Mannaerts treats the space as a sculptural container, exposing its own texture - the patterned hue of the marble floors and walls, the domed central atrium, the columns, arches and near-symmetry of the layout. At the same time, she makes a few, precise interventions into the given display set-up, for example, building narrow shelves into some of the walls, and designing a fan-shaped arrangement of plinths. In this way, the exhibition’s layout is imagined to be viewed from certain fixed points within its spatial volume, exaggerating the image-plane of the sculptural objects.

Mannaerts’s broader project is grown from the practice of drawing, and investigates the back and forth perceptual relationship between two-dimensional images, and three dimensional object-matter. Often, found media images are collaged with found things that are treated also as compositional shapes - a stool, a pedestal or a ball, maybe - creating complex new forms.

Whilst the show activates the unusual and highly formal display situation of the spaces, the artist also brings out its organic qualities, and those of her given and chosen materials: the veined stone architecture, the natural daylight which she has deliberately retained instead of artificial lamps, and in her use of plants including cacti that are placed between the works. Mannaerts’s image and object choices compress different temporalities and material densities so that they create ‘knots’ of tactile and perceptual sensation, suggesting a mysterious coalescence in the artist’s imagination of the materiality of the natural and the man-made.

Immage: Giorgio Morandi Natura morta, 1951, olio su tela 36 x 40 cm Bologna, Museo Morandi

----------italian version

Giorgio Morandi
Retrospettiva

Bruxelles celebra il genio dell'artista bolognese in una mostra che riunisce un centinaio di lavori tra dipinti, disegni, incisioni e acquerelli nelle sale del Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Tra questi, cinque oli su tela e un disegno provenienti dalle collezioni del Museo Morandi di Bologna che saranno visibili al pubblico dell'esposizione fino al 22 settembre.

L'ampia retrospettiva, curata da Maria Cristina Bandera (studiosa, direttrice della Fondazione Roberto Longhi di Firenze e co-curatrice della grande mostra su Morandi tenutasi al MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna e al Metropolitan Museum di New York nel 2008/2009) tocca i temi principali della ricerca dell'artista: la natura morta, il paesaggio e i fiori, senza trascurarne altri meno ricorrenti se non addirittura rari, quali l'autoritratto e la figura umana (come nel caso delle Bagnanti del 1915).

Si parte dalle prime opere che si muovono nell'ambito delle avanguardie per seguire l’evoluzione espressiva morandiana fino alla progressiva dissolvenza dei lavori degli ultimi anni, attraversando tutte le tecniche e le varianti esplorate dall'artista.
Le opere messe a disposizione dal Museo Morandi vanno dai Fiori del 1924, passando per tre nature morte (una del 1942, due del 1951) fino ai paesaggi del 1961 (matita su carta) e del 1962 (olio su tela).

A Bruxelles i lavori di Giorgio Morandi vengono accostati e posti in dialogo con quelli di un altro artista contemporaneo: Luc Tuymans. Tale scelta è stata già da tempo sperimentata nell'allestimento dell'ampia collezione di Bologna - la più rilevante raccolta pubblica morandiana, attualmente ospitata nelle sale del MAMbo - in cui sono presenti opere di diversi autori tra i quali Wayne Thiebaud, Sean Scully e Tony Cragg.

Tra i sostenitori della mostra la Regione Emilia-Romagna e l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bruxelles.

Immagine: Giorgio Morandi Natura morta, 1951, olio su tela 36 x 40 cm Bologna, Museo Morandi

Press MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna / Museo Morandi
Elisa Maria Cerra – Tel. +39 051 6496653 ufficiostampamambo@comune.bologna.it

Press Office Palais des Beaux-Arts:
Leen Daems T +32 (0)2 5078389 / +32 (0)479 986607 leen.daems@bozar.be

Friday 07.06.13 - 10:00 > 18:00

Palais des Beaux-Arts Bozar
Rue Ravenstein Bruxelles
Hours:
Daily 10:00 > 18:00
Thursday 10:00 > 21:00
Price
€ 10,00: full price
€ 8,00: discount rate (18 > 26 y, + 65 y, groups, ...)
€ 6,00: 12 > 18 y / teachers
€ 4,00: jobseekers / schools
Free access: under 12

stampa

permanent link