Cherasco dedicates a retrospective exhibition to Alexandrian painter Pietro Morando

From May 28 to September 18, 2022 Palazzo Salmatoris in Cherasco (Cuneo) presents Dal segno al racconto, an exhibition on the painter from Alessandria Pietro Morando curated by Rino Tacchella and Cinzia Tesio, with the direction of Riccardo Gattolin.

About ninety works are exhibited, with the intention of retracing the artist’s entire pictorial itinerary, starting from his formative years and arriving at the postwar period, when Morando identified a personal and recognizable expressive sign.

The exhibition kicks off with his Divisionist beginnings, in the wake of masters Angelo Morbelli and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, with whom he was linked by an interest in the humble and the dispossessed. After some Futurist drawings made during the period when he was Morbelli’s guest in Milan, the exhibition continues with dramatic images of drawings inspired by World War I, in which Morando participated as a volunteer in the “Arditi” corps.

This is followed by works from the early postwar period, when the artist adhered to the climate of the return to order, entering into dialectic with the works of Felice Casorati and his friend Carlo Carrà, who would remain his constant point of reference, and with the sculptures of Arturo Martini, the greatest protagonists of that season. Influenced by Carrà’s neo-Giottesque primitivism, he will elaborate the famous figure of the Wayfarer in the second half of the 1920s.

Also documented will be the phase of agrarian primitivism’, strongly rooted in his homeland, with peasant families portrayed in the idyllic quiet of breaks from work and Monferrato cattle markets, or with mighty peasants at work, painted in tones of heartfelt participation. Finally, numerous examples of his post-World War II painting will be on display, made after the expressionistic and cubist turn that led him to deform and magnify square and angular forms as if they were carved in wood. It was during this period that the artist created some significant works dedicated to the most emblematic places of his native Alexandria: its squares, streets and buildings, devoid of human presence and immersed in a still, silent metaphysical atmosphere.

Hours: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3 to 7 p.m.

Free admission.

Cherasco dedicates a retrospective exhibition to Alexandrian painter Pietro Morando

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