Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi s Objects (signed by artist)

Meyerowitz, Joel

ISBN 10: 8862084536 / ISBN 13: 9788862084536

Verlag: Damiani, 2015

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 116 pages as new condition; clean and crisp; boldly signed by Joel Meyerowitz in black marker on 2nd blank page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers JoMeDa350

Inhaltsangabe:

In the spring of 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandis Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandis objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, cans, funnels, watering cans. In the photographs, each object sits on Morandis table, which still bears the marks the painter drew to set the positions of his subjects. In the background is the same paper that Morandi left on the wall, now brittle and yellow with age. Meyerowitzs portraits of these dusty, aged objects are not only works of art themselves, but they offer insight into the humble subjects that Morandi transformed into his subtle and luminous paintings.

Von der hinteren Coverseite: "I sat at Giorgio Morandi's table in exactly the same place that he sat for more than 40 years. On his table the same slant of light glowed for me as had for him. I watched it slowly bloom across his now empty, but tracery filled work surface for two days in the spring of 2015. One by one, more than 260 objects that he had collected came into my hands. Dust covered and ordinary, they presented themselves as part of the mystery that Morandi left behind for us to try and understand. Many objects returned again and again to perform for him and take a fresh position within the chorus of voices arranged on his table. How is it that these quotidian objects contained so much power that they kept Morandi in thrall to them throughout his life?"

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi s Objects (signed ...
Verlag: Damiani
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers