PRESENCE ABSENCE

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I took a journey inside a book about Giorgio Morandi’s art. Those pages tell a story of light, contemplation, and silence, which originates from the memory of a room: his studio, where his paintings were created among common objects such as jugs, vases and small personal items.

COMMON OBJECTS

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Giorgio Morandi thinks that the visible world has a value as it is a harmony of light, colour, and shapes. Such harmony plays a fundamental role in representing the bond between the human being and things. The painter explores it with his bottles, his boxes, his objects, using lines and shapes. In this spatial dimension of “full and empty”, what we see is not what is there, it’s just our perception of it. The objects are tangible and real, but the rest is just pure imagination.

OCCASIONAL POEMS

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The painter’s contemplative spirit especially comes out in his personal production of flowers. His paintings are small canvas in which the light penetrates and wraps up small bunches of light-coloured flowers. They are just like short “occasional poems”.