Giorgio Morandi

The great Italian artist of the 20th century Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) received major renown in New York in Autumn 2008, with a landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accompanied by a range of other shows at other galleries in the city. The largest retrospective in North America for the artist to date, it will move back, in a slightly adjusted format, to the artist’s hometown, Bologna, to be displayed at that city’s Museo d’Arte Moderna from January 22. It was in Bologna that the artist spent the greater part of his life, and where a museum dedicated to his memory occupies an honoured place in one of the city’s central town square buildings.

RUNNING AT FLORENCE'S PALAZZO STROZZI UNTIL THE END OF JANUARY 2013, THE EXHIBITION "THE THIRTIES. THE ARTS IN ITALY BEYOND FASCISM" FEATURES ARTISTS WHO CAME TO PUBLIC NOTICE AFTER EXHIBITING AT THE VENICE BIEN-NALES DURING ITALY'S FASCIST ERA. IT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAST A FRESH LOOK AT THE ARTISTIC CULTURE OF THIS TRAGIC HISTORICAL PERIOD OF EUROPEAN CIVILISATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY - ONE WITH REGARD TO WHICH THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE VARIANCE OF OPINION TO DATE AMONG ITS INTERPRETERS AND JUDGES.