M WOODS, Beijing
December 2020
December 6, 2020–June 14, 2021 Giorgio Morandi: The Poetics of Stillness marks the first museum exhibition in China to showcase the work of the celebrated Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. Presenting over eighty works, the survey exhibition explores six decades of Morandi’s practice, spanning from his first 1914 exhibition and early cubist- and futurist-inspired period to his later work in the 1960s, just before his death. Rather than following a chronological approach, the exhibition is assembled with reference to specific elements of Morandi’s practice—transcendence, repetition, and Nature—accenting the artist’s ability to capture the qualitative nature of time and create deep spaces of contemplation within moments of unrest. In recognition of Giorgio Morandi’s inaugural solo exhibition in China, the show considers the artist’s silent investigations of form, meditative use of repetition, and introspective compositions in tandem with concepts of timelessness found in European and traditional Chinese thought and philosophies.