Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta
1947-1948
oil on canvas
30,5
x 43 cm
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The moment I first saw a
small painting by Giorgio Morandi in Museum Boymans van Beuningen, many years
ago, is unforgettable.
A small object but
infinitely large: monumentality is in the first place presence. This has
nothing to do with the dimensions. The paint is alive, but at the same time it
is icy cool, frozen. Everything given, all energy is used up in the paint.
The complete naturalness of
the whole as if it has always been there. Yet explicitly manufactured. Perfect
unity of shape and counter shape, of foreground and background. Everything
equally close and everything equally far away: all the same amount of mass. But
also the momentary impression that, chiseled in paint, stops time. The now, on-going.
And then the subject. A few
silly bottles and jars that, in a casual and very compelling way, turn the
small into the grand. Shared intimacy. No show. No message. Everything is
striking. Mercilessly honest. It is what it is. A world in and of paint.
Dave
Meijer, 2019
Dave Meijer (NL)
01
Zonder
titel
2018
oil on panel on canvas
