Morandi's objects
By: Joel Meyerowitz
Contributors: Barrett, Maggie; Spazio Damiani (Gallery : Bologna, Italy)
Publisher: Damiani
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9788862084536
Subjects: Photography of art; Exhibitions; Still-life painting, Italian; Art and photography; Criticism and interpretation; Artistic Photography
Description: In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans. In the photographs, each object sits on Morandi's table, which still bears the marks the painter drew to set the positions of his subjects. In the background is the same paper that Morandi left on the wall, now brittle and yellow with age. Meyerowitz's portraits of these dusty, aged objects are not only works of art themselves, but they offer insight into the humble subjects that Morandi transformed into his subtle and luminous paintings.--From publisher's description.
Notes: Two illustrations printed in part on double leaves.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Spazio Damiani, Bologna, Italy, October 23, 2015-February 1, 2016.

Essay, The patina of time, by Maggie Barrett.

A limited edition of 25 copies, including a signed and numbered photograph by the artist, is also to be published.