Picasso, Morandi, Parmiggiani - by Cécile Debray (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A focused dialogue between Picasso, Morandi, and Parmiggiani through the genre of still life.

Three masters of modern painting, three approaches to the object. Drawing on a rigorous and tightly focused selection of still lifes by Picasso, Morandi, and Parmiggiani, the exhibition proposes a dialogue around the question of representation - between grasping and veiling reality - through the staging of objects within the laboratory of the studio. From Picasso's bricolages, assemblages, and deconstructions, which forge a new pictorial language while reasserting the fi gure of the memento mori; to Morandi's striking serial compositions of white-painted bottles arranged on studio shelves and elevated into timeless, metaphysical motifs; and finally to Parmiggiani's works, smoke shadows of objects that pose profound questions of disappearance and absence, reformulating contemporary Vanitas.

About the Author

Cécile Debray is Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie since June 2017. She has been curator in charge of modern collections in the Musée National d'Artmoderne / Centre Pompidou from 2008- 2017, in charge of exhibitions programs at the Grand Palais, RMN from 2005-2008 and curator at the Musée de la Ville de Paris from 2000-2005. A historian of art, and a teacher at the Ecole du Louvre, she writes about historical avant-gardes and modern and contemporary painting.