In Situ Traces of Morandi — Catherine Wagner

In Situ Traces of Morandi — Catherine Wagner

In Situ Traces of Morandi

2015-2016

In Situ: Traces of Morandi, is the culmination of my 2-year residency at museo Morandi, Casa Morandi in Bologna, and Morandi’s summer home in Grizzana. I have long admired the austere structural logic and poetry of Giorgio Morandi’s still life paintings. Working in situ at Morandi’s studio, with a practiced intuition, I conceived of new constructions with the objects he so carefully arranged and interpreted. I abstracted these forms both formally and conceptually, using colored gels, and created new frameworks through repeated imagery. I stripped the patina from Morandi’s objects, and made ephemeral moments in cast shadows. These still lifes deal with the compression of space and the transparency of form, creating the intangibility that supports these concepts. In photographing an inherently immaterial intangible interaction with light I composed vaporous images. The solid objects appear elusive, caught in the vibratory aura at the edge of a shadow.

In Situ Traces of Morandi

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In Situ Traces of Morandi

Morandi Map III

26 in. x 38 1/2 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

Morandi Map II

24.25 in. x 34 in each Archival pigment print. 2015.

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#132

37 1/2 in. × 50 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

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#017

37 1/2 in. × 50 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

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#278 + 279

32.2in. × 43in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#278 (double)

22.5 in. × 30 in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#061

37 1/2 in. × 50 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

#007

37 1/2 in. × 50 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

#017 (double)

22 1/2 in. × 30 in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#750

37 1/2 in. × 50 in. Archival pigment print. 2015.

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#278 + 007 (double)

26 in. × 43 in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#728/750

18 in. × 14 1/2 in. each. Archival pigment print. 2015.

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#103/162

18 in. × 14 1/2 in. each. Archival pigment print. 2015.

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Grizzana Landscape (green)

32 in. × 43 in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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Grizzana Landscape (blue)

32 in. × 43 in. Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#600

20 in. x 15 in each Archival pigment print. 2016.

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#053 + 103/ 085

20 in. x 15 in each Archival pigment print. 2016.

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Installation Museum of Modern Art Bologna/ museo Morandi

Bologna, Italy 2017

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

Installation Museum of Modern Art Bologna/ museo Morandi

Bologna, Italy 2017

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

Installation Museum of Modern Art Bologna/ museo Morandi,

Bologna, Italy 2017

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

Installation Museum of Modern Art Bologna/ museo Morandi

Bologna, Italy 2017

In Situ: Traces of Morandi

Installation Museum of Modern Art Bologna/ museo Morandi

Bologna, Italy 2017