Reviewing the beloved early twentieth-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi's hugely popular 2008 retrospective exhibition, The New York Times' Holland Cotter wrote, "Aspirants to the role of painter-as-poet are many. Giorgio Morandi was the real thing. And the retrospective, Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the second of its size in the United States, with nearly 100 still lifes and a dozen landscapes, is something that anyone in love with painting and its very specific poetry will want to see." This volume presents more than 500 crisp documentary photographs that Gianni Berengo Gardin--winner of the 2008 Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement--made of Morandi's studio during the course of its legendary move from the artist's home in the center of Bologna to the Museo Morandi. Carlo Zucchini and Silvia Palombi contribute an affectionate conversation about this epic happening on the occasion of Morandi's studio coming home.
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Gianni Berengo Gardin has been a professional photographer for more than 55 years. In 2008, he was awarded the highly prestigious Lucie Award for lifetime achievement.
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There is more feeling, depth and integrity in a thumbnail size reproduction of a Morandi painting than there could ever be in a gallery full of pickled sharks and sliced cow carcases. Having said that, if you love this artist as much as I do, you would surely want to see the room and still life objects from where these paintings have their origins, all lovingly photographed in the natural light that bathed his still lifes. If you are a painter yourself as well as an admirer, you will no doubt find pleasure in perusing the pages of this book to gain some insight in how this artist operated. His groupings of vases, bottles, shells and other objects lining the shelves and table tops of his studio, his paint encrusted easel, his bed, the stairs leading to his studio and as well as glimpse of the other rooms of the house he shared with his sisters are all beautifully and sympathetically photographed in black and white.
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