Renato Miracco Knihy

This volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandi’s work: self portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over the years, including paint, etching, drawing and watercolor.The volume is the catalog of an outstanding exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum in New York and by the Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. The exhibition will be open in New York from September 16 to December 14, 2008 and in Bologna from January 22 to April 12, 2009.The exhibition and the catalog also contain a number of photographs of Morandi’s studio and quotes from his admirers, as well as the memorable 1958 interview with Edouard Roditi.

The book delves into the dynamic relationship between the Italian and American art worlds, examining their mutual influences and the allure each holds for the other. It analyzes historical interactions and cultural exchanges, highlighting how these two vibrant art scenes have shaped one another over time. Through this exploration, the work reveals the complexities of artistic identity and the global dialogue between these two significant cultural spheres.

This exhibition catalog and collection is designed to provide the public with a better understanding and appreciation of an artist who, amongst the Masters and avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, was at the forefront of research and formal experimentation. His relentless investigation began in the thirties and continued for the rest of his life; it focused on finding dimensions, spaces and new shapes.Yet despite all this, it took a long time for Lucio Fontana s work to capture the attention of the discerning American public, initially enthralled by the European modernism of the French school. This selection of works illustrates the progress and evolution of Fontana s research on signs and matter. The exhibition combines his aperture towards the modern movement while he was in South America with his works inspired by the atmosphere in Milan, based, so to speak, on metaphysical considerations and the practical application of his studies and interiors or on the everyday aesthetics represented by the world of fashion.

Catalogo di mostra, Istituto Italiano di Cultura e Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York 17 dicembre 2005 - 12 marzo 2006. Scritti di Renato Miracco, Elisabetta Cristallini, Nadja Perilli. Numerose tavole a colori e foto in nero. Biografia. Testi in italiano ed inglese . 8vo pp. 120 Brossura (wrappers) Perfetto (Mint)