Participating artists:Giorgio Morandi, Joseph Albers, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Gustave Caillebotte, Tacita Dean, Walter Dexel, Peter Dreher, Lucian Freud, Candida Höfer, On Kawara, Sol Lewitt, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Franziska Reinbothe, Willem de Rooij
Period (opening hours):Tue.-Mi. & Fri.-Sun. 11:00 AM–6:00 PM, Thu. 11:00 AM–08:00 PM, Mon. closed
Venue:Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Unteres Schloss 1
57072 Siegen
Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964 in Bologna) is known for his still lifes and landscape paintings. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to depicting simple, everyday objects such as bottles, jugs, vases and bowls.
In his paintings and drawings, he constantly varied the arrangement of the objects so that, despite similar arrangements, no two pictures are the same. They are reduced to the essential forms in a concentrated calm. It is precisely in the repetition of the same objects that the minimal differences emerge as major events. It is precisely for this tension between repetition and difference that Morandi has attracted attention as one of the great mavericks of modern painting.
The retrospective exhibition "Giorgio Morandi. Resonances" at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen explores this special position of Morandi in the art of the last 80 years. It shows more than 60 works by the painter from the early 1920s to the 1960s. The presentation is based on the comprehensive group of Morandi works in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and expands on this with loans from German and European collections. At the same time, the exhibition adopts Morandi's principle and places the works in dialogue with older and more recent works by other artists.
