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18/11/2014

Giorgio Morandi

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MMCA, Seoul

Dialogue with Morandi

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1. Giorgio Morandi in Korea

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea is delighted to present the art of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) who was one of the great masters of modern Italian art for the first time in Korea. This exhibition features an outstanding grouping of approximately forty works of Morandi’s oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings carefully selected from the collection of Museo Morandi in Bologna. These works of Morandi were made during his artistic maturity from the 1940s to the 1960s, use scenes and sites of everyday life as their subject matter such as commonplace objects and landscapes, and yet are endowed with the artist’s original creativity.

These everyday subjects, which are almost persistently repeated in the work of Morandi, are unfolded in subtle and tranquil variations in terms of form, composition, and color while being reconfigured in a new order. Each and every work of Morandi who said “The only interest the visible world awakens in me concerns space, light, color and forms” and “Nothing is more abstract than reality” opens the door to the nature of being through their simplicity and serenity. This is the very reason that the art of Morandi was highly esteemed even in the mid-twentieth century when abstract art, which can be characterized by the hugeness of scale and an emphasis on energetic gesture, dominated the international art scene and a countless number of artists have found inspirations in the work of Morandi. It is genuinely anticipated that this exhibition caters today’s people’s need to shield themselves from the exposure to the overwhelming amount of image-based information and noise in this present-day society by enabling viewers to immerse themselves in the works of art that are permeated by the deep contemplation which the artist achieved through endurance and restraint and offer through the channel of suggestion a valuable experience through which they are enabled to penetrate the nature of relationship.

The Still Life
For Morandi who is also described as a “painter of bottles,” still life painting was the peerless medium through which he could explore and define the constitution and quintessence of painting and could inquire into the root and relationship of being. His still lifes are about visual experiences while empowering viewers to constantly question what they are seeing right now. Morandi picked up bottles of various shapes and sizes at flea markets, removed labels and painted over them so as to deprive them of their original properties and objecthood.

The Shells
His works of seashells indicate that Morandi abandoned, for a while, his main repertoire of everyday objects and was instead captivated by unusual forms—that is, baroque, irregular contours and rounded surfaces of perfect spiralness.

The Flowers
Morandi’s flower paintings seem to vibrate with luscious beauty generated by the use of sensuous tones and the delicate and fragile texture of the petals evocative of the feel of soft silk. As such different hues as pearly white, pink, and green play a muted jazz concerto, his flowers boast their blossomy elegance and innocent purity.

The Landscape
Like his still lifes, Morandi’s landscape paintings of his later years shown here are marked by his experiments in the dramatic simplification of form, his use of drastic contrasts of light, his confident choice of colors, and his achievement of a quiet, alluring orchestration of colors. His characteristic variations are detected in the reiteration of such subject matters and elements as geometrically shaped buildings, the contrast between light and shade, and the rhythms of vegetation.

​2. Dialogue with Morandi
Having had been intimately connected to its centuries-old traditions, the Italian art of the twentieth-century underwent dynamic developments while responding to the changes of the times, like twentieth-century Korean art, which similarly upheld its long tradition and experienced rapid changes during the modern period. This is why it would be quite illuminating to apply a comparative perspective on the examination of the arts of these two countries, which are in the same latitude—one in the West and the other in the East. It is particularly true that what one can discern in Morandi’s paintings—simplicity of non-superfluity, the aesthetics of restraint and placidity, empty fullness, and consistent emotional tension—fill the gap between the East whose emphasis is given to the spiritual and the West whose focus is placed on the material and hence prompts the possibility to place the West and the East in the same context and discuss the encounter between them.

Laying emphasis on Morandi’s still lifes, which are the highlights of this show, “Dialogue with Morandi” encourages a comparative viewing with still lifes by those Korean artists who were contemporary to Morandi. In addition, audiences are welcomed by works by Korean contemporary artists who either were inspired by Morandi or approached the subject matter of objects in ways similar to Morandi’s: To Sang-bong (1902-1977), Oh Ji-ho (1905-1982), Kim Whan-ki (1913-1974), Park Soo-keun (1914-1965), Kim Ku-lim (1936- ), Choi In-soo (1946- ), Sul Won-gi (1951- ), Ko Young-hoon (1952- ), Kang Mi-sun (1961- ), Shin Mee-kyoung (1967-), Hwang Hae-sun (1969- ), Lee Yoon-jean (1972- ) and Jeong Bo-young (1973- ).

Media Contact:
JaRam Kim Tel. +82-2-2188-6232 e-mail. jaram0909@korea.kr

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Giorgio Morandi

Il National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art di Deoksugung a Seoul in Corea e l'Istituzione Bologna Musei | Museo Morandi organizzano in collaborazione una mostra dedicata a Giorgio Morandi che inaugura il 19 novembre e rimarrà aperta al pubblico dal 20 novembre 2014 al 25 febbraio 2015.
Per la prima volta un consistente numero di opere del maestro bolognese viene esposto nel paese asiatico, presentando i principali nuclei tematici delle raccolte del Museo Morandi, a conferma del forte interesse e dei continui studi che in tutto il mondo ruotano intorno alla figura di uno dei protagonisti più significativi dell'arte del XX secolo.
Il progetto espositivo condiviso rientra in un programma di scambio culturale tra la città di Bologna e la città di Seoul, nell'ambito di una lunga tradizione di rapporti economici ed istituzionali e in occasione delle celebrazioni del 130° anniversario delle relazioni diplomatiche tra Italia e Corea. Ricorrenza che il Comune di Bologna e la Città di Seoul hanno voluto celebrare con uno speciale protocollo d'intesa, impegnandosi a rafforzare sempre più i rapporti di scambio e cooperazione reciproca.

La selezione delle opere in mostra, ben lontana dal voler essere una antologica, non procede cronologicamente e non vuole esaminare rapporti e influenze nell'ambito della pittura europea del Novecento ponendo Morandi in una prospettiva storiografica. L'esposizione ambisce piuttosto a rendere evidente il peso di una ricerca artistica straordinariamente in grado, oggi, di dialogare con le istanze culturali di un mondo globalizzato, perché ha saputo interrogarsi incessantemente sul valore dell'opera e sull'atto stesso del dipingere.
Un'indagine, quella di Morandi, sempre coerente e rigorosa nel tentativo felicemente riuscito di tradurre in pittura la propria esperienza umana e il proprio universo poetico, lavorando su continue variazioni di pochi temi, rivolgendosi a oggetti o paesaggi familiari, per arrivare a cogliere l'essenziale nell'idea stessa di pittura.

Dal Museo Morandi arrivano in Corea 6 dipinti, 5 acquerelli, 6 disegni, 5 incisioni, 4 opere di collezione privata in deposito di comodato e una serie di oggetti originali provenienti da Casa Morandi, tra i quali il foglio che ricopriva il tavolo di lavoro di Morandi e sul quale l'artista segnava le posizioni degli oggetti delle sue nature morte.

Il percorso espositivo coreano presenta alcuni capolavori della collezione bolognese e, attraverso felici accostamenti delle diverse tecniche sperimentate dall'artista, invita il visitatore a leggere le opere di Morandi nella loro unità e unicità, cogliendo lo spirito e la disciplina che le anima. Nature morte, fiori, paesaggi, conchiglie diventano agli occhi dello spettatore pure forme, oggetti privi di qualsiasi semantica, che l'artista trascende per coglierne l'essenza.
La mostra comprende lavori di artisti coreani che a Morandi si sono ispirati.
Un momento di ulteriore approfondimento della vita e della poetica del maestro bolognese è dato dalla proiezione del film La polvere di Morandi, un documentario del regista Mario Chemello, prodotto da Imago Orbis in collaborazione con il Museo Morandi e con il contributo della Film Commission dell’Emilia Romagna.

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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MMCA
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Museum Hours
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday: 10:00 am ~ 7:00 pm
Wednesday, Saturday: 10:00 am ~ 9:00 pm
Closed: Mondays and January 1st
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Admission:
Adult 9,000won, secondary school students 7,000won, Primary school students 5,000won(Including the admission of Deoksugung)

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