La Spezia, at CAMeC Morandi and Fontana in comparison

CAMeC - Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia is preparing for a major exhibition event with Morandi and Fontana. Invisible and Infinite, a project that juxtaposes two key figures in 20th-century Italian art, Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, 1890 - Bologna, 1964) and Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968). The exhibition, scheduled from April 12 to Sept. 14, 2025, is curated by Maria Cristina Bandera and Sergio Risaliti.

The juxtaposition of Morandi and Fontana is based on a dialogue between artists with two different visions of life and artistic practice: on the one hand the silent suspension of time, on the other theirruption of gesture into space. Morandi, with his still lifes made of bottles, jugs, coffee pots and tin cans, reduces painting to its essence, dissolving matter in a rarefied and contemplative atmosphere. In his landscapes, made of hills, tenements and courtyards, the visible and the invisible merge into a silent and profound reality of color and contemplation. In the face of this quest for essentiality, Fontana’s gesture appears as a radical break. With a cut in the canvas, the Italian-Argentine artist opens a gap in the work, denying the two-dimensionality of painting and suggesting a beyond of visible space. He abandons all figurative illusion by opening his gaze wide to the infinite.

The exhibition at CAMeC thus presents a comparison between these two masters, seemingly irreconcilable but united by a common goal: to overcome the limits of the gaze and redefine the way we see art and the world. Morandi does this by eliminating every superfluous detail in order to capture the invisible. Fontana, on the other hand, breaks the surface to evoke the infinite. Two visions that reflect two opposing conceptions of art, but which have in common a relentless search for new horizons.

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La Spezia, at CAMeC Morandi and Fontana in comparison

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