Those everyday objects: William Kentridge's homage to Morandi
The exhibition at Palazzo Citterio is one of the stops on the Metaphysical/Metaphysical exhibition route that links Palazzo Reale, the Museo del Novecento and the Gallerie d'Italia with Grande Brera.
by Editors
This is not the first time that South African artist William Kentridge has confronted the work of Giorgio Morandi. He had done so, for instance, during the lockdown with a series of photogravures entitled Eight Vessels and then with the animation film and charcoal drawings on paper, Medicine Chest. Now he has returned to the theme with a sound video installation and then with a sequence of cardboard sculptures that poetically reinterpret the everyday objects that are the protagonists of the Bolognese master's still lifes.
The installation with the title More Sweetly Play the Dance and the sculptures, Remembering Morandi presented to the public for the first time, are the core of the exhibition that Palazzo Citterio dedicates to Kentridge and his ideal dialogue with Morandi's metaphysical works preserved in the Grande Brera. Staged in the palace's Stirling Hall from 6 February to 5 April 2026, the exhibition is part of the exhibition programme curated by Vincenzo Trione which, on the occasion of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accompanies the Palazzo Reale Metaphysics exhibition: a general dialogue between the masters of Metaphysics and their international heirs of the 20th and 21st centuries, in a sort of art walk that links the Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento to the Gallerie d'Italia and, indeed, the Grande Brera.
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