One hundred still-lives, landscapes and bottles pictures were carefully selected by Maria Cristina Bandera for a retrospective tribute by the Palais des Beaux Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, capital of Gelgium and of the EU to one of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists.
Open to the public from 7 June to 22 September 2013
The retrospective, at the opening of which Italian ambassador to Belgium Alfredo Bastianelli spoke, will be open to the public from 7 June to 22 September and consists of oil paintings, drawings, prints and water colours by the painter, who was born in Bologna in 1890 and died there in 1964. Morandi, great master of international modern art, was influenced by Italians such as Giotto and Paolo Uccello and French painters, Chardin, Seurat and Cezanne as well as by the typical local landscape artists of Emilia-Romagna. Morandi’s resulting oeuvre is set apart from his contemporaries by its subtle and poetic treatment everyday subjects such vases of flowers, bowls, coffee pots and his celebrated bottles.
Still-lives, landscapes, portraits: 100 canvases from the world of Morandi
The exhibition is chronological and contains pieces on loan from many Italian museums and collections. Additionally, the works on display will be contrasted with pieces by some of the artists that influenced Morandi.
